[TowerTalk] Circularly Polarized Receive Antenna

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sun Aug 17 19:56:00 EDT 2025


On 8/17/2025 2:30 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> Even if you have "equal" length feedlines they don't necessarily have 
> exactly the same velocity factor.

Of course, and with instrumentation capable of TDR, we can measure and 
trim their electrical lengths to match. I'm using the excellent DG8SAQ 
VNWA, built and sold by a ham in the UK. It implements TDR by performing 
an inverse FFT on wide frequency sweep. We can select from a half-dozen 
windowing functions for the best view of the data.

73, Jim K9YC



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