[TowerTalk] Re: Analyzer zero reactance

Bill Tippett btippett at alum.mit.edu
Mon Oct 18 07:30:50 EDT 2004


At 07:19 AM 10/18/04, Tom Rauch wrote:

>The analyzer is susceptible to external voltages. As little
>as a few millivolts external voltage can make the analyzer
>not read zero.

         Which may explain why my MFJ never goes to
zero reactance on my 180' tower (due to external pickup)
but DOES go to zero with the 20/40m 1/2 wave.  Probably
a lot less pickup problems on 20/40.

                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV




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