[TowerTalk] More Radials = Higher SWR???

[Lux, Jim]

On 2/5/23 5:29 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
> Dennis,
> Use an antenna analyzer to see what's going on.  I recently used a RigExpert
> AA-54 to tune up my 160M vertical with elevated radials.  It provides a lot
> of good data!
> 73,
> Steve
> N6SJ


Or any of the recent crop of $50-100 VNAs..(NanoVNA, NanoVNA2, 
NanoVNA-F, NanoVNA-H, NanoVNA-4, etc.)


One of the nice things with the VNA is that you can do a calibration at 
the end of the coax, so you don't have to figure out what the coax is 
doing to the feedpoint impedance.  I mean, you also need to measure at 
the source end of the coax, because that's what keeps the amplifier 
happy, but when trying to figure out what's going on, the VNA provides a 
lot more information.