Topband: (2wire) Beverage transformers

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Sun Jan 3 09:51:56 EST 2021


...thanks Luke, then I stop gold plating... ;-)

One of the new directions is pointing dedicated to VK/ZL
hope I can catch you in the CQ160m.

73!
Csaba



On 2021-01-03 1:39, List Mail wrote:
> "The best I could reach now on 160m is
> - SWR: 1:1.29 (Rs=40.4 Ohms, Xs=-5.4 Ohms)
> vs. in 2019:
> - SWR: 1:1.16 (Rs=43.2 Ohms, Xs=-1.6 Ohms)"
> 
> 
> If I can get those matches on a *transmitting* antenna, I am very 
> satisfied!
> 
> I built three 2-wire beverages using W0BTU's design (single coax) and 
> measured best SWR around 1.5:1 and didn't give it a second thought. They 
> are all 269 m long, using 2.5 mm galvanised high-tensile fencing wire. 
> They work!
> 
> 73, Luke VK3HJ
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