Topband: T-vertical again
Steve Flood
flood at ixi.net
Sun Oct 16 15:59:14 EDT 2005
I have my T-vertical up now. 70 foot topwire, 71.5 foot vertical wire, and 38 radials on the ground.
Last night I could here the Europeans on the vertical and zilch on the dipole. Very exciting but no luck working them. I have couple things left to do yet...
My feedpoint Z:
1.800 MHz 24-j25
1.825 MHz 25 - j14
1.846 MHz 26 + j0
1.870 MHz 27 + j9
I am thinking of adding a coil at the top of the vertical wire to cancel the capacitive reactance at around 1.825 MHz. Is there a way to calculate what the reactance is at the top of the vertical wire based on the feedpoint reactance? (..and thus determine what size coil I need up there)
Also, it looks like a 2:1 UNUN is in order at the feedpoint as well.
Comments or suggestions?
Steve
KK7UV
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