Topband: matching elevated vertical
Steve Flood
flood at ixi.net
Fri Dec 10 09:43:46 EST 2004
I am setting up a balloon vertical (136 ft. radiator) with a feedpoint at 30 feet above ground and 4 radials about 60-foot long each. I'd like to do something at the feedpoint to transform the 56-j115 impedance (modelled) for 50-ohm coax feed. Is there a simple L-network calculator anyone has used? Or is there a better way alltogether to do it? I did notice in modelling if I lengthen the radiator to 152 feet I can get a feedpoint Z around 75+j0, but still needing some sort of matching device. Any tips? More and/or longer radials? I could probably go out to 80 or 90 feet on the radials if I really had to.
Steve, KK7UV
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