I found that the remote Ant method showed the actual radiated rf better than
the internal link.
It suprised me that the my actual received signal showed slightly more output
with a less than minimal SWR tuning. Tried all combinations of VKII final
tuning and tuner manipulation (TenTec 1KW) but no matter what it showed a
little more radiated output indicated by the external wire than proper tuning
ended up with. Tuned up into a 50 OHM cantenna with low power and then went to
the ant and dipped the SWR, then brought the drive up, dipped, dipped. Dipole
was cut for 75 and the coax trimmed for the same. Might have been a fluke of my
half flat top half zigzag ant but never quit figured out why this happened. Too
late now. New QTH and no Ant yet.
Bill KB3DKS/1
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From: W5OMR/Geoff
To each their own, I guess, but I personally prefer to monitor the envelope
from a remote 'sense' antenna, that's fed into the front end of the o'scope. My
sense antenna for my delta loop, is a 40m dipole. works great.
For 160, 75 and 40m, you'd need only a 20MHz scope.
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
