Topband: 160M shunt fed choke

Wes N7WS wes_n7ws at triconet.org
Thu May 28 16:39:11 EDT 2020


A buried antenna. Why worry about it?

Wes. N7WS

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> On May 28, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/28/2020 1:06 PM, fmoeves wrote:
>> I'm going from memory so... I've seen a video of a simple detector. In the video the guy ran along the feedline while transmitting low power. You could see if there was a signal on the outside of the cable. I'll look later to see if I find.
> 
> Tony's feedline is buried, so could be tricky. But it IS right to move the probe along the feedline to find a current max, because the current varies along the line because it would be acting as part of the antenna.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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