[TowerTalk] Antenna analyzers and parallel conductor transmission
lines
Steve
steveac at charter.net
Wed Feb 2 20:41:59 EST 2005
The antenna analyzers one finds marketed to hams all seem to have an
SO-239 connector.
Can one use these devices with antennas fed with parallel conductor
transmission lines such as open wire or ladder line?
If so, how do you connect the parallel conductor line to the antenna
analyzer? One wire to the center pin and the other wire to the threaded
body of the SO-239?
Do you lose any antenna analyzer functionality when using it with
parallel conductor transmission line as compared to coaxial transmission
line?
Are any particular antenna analyzers better suited to parallel conductor
transmission lines?
Are any particular antenna analyzers favored for measuring the extremes
of resistance and reactance (and particularly correctly indicating the
sign of the reactance) that one encounters at the shack end of a 100ft
dipole fed with parallel conductor transmission line operated and in the
160 through 10 meter amateur bands?
Thanks,
Steve K8JQ
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