Thanks for all the responses. Don, your comments are much appreciated and I planned on building a bracket just as you describe and mounting my whip/counterpoise to the top of a trekking pole..
Again, I'm not asking about antenna performance. I will add the counterpoise in actual operation. I'm asking if anyone out there who actually owns the MFJ-1820T can please connect it directly to a antenna analyzer and check 20M performance. Yes, I believe these antennas actually DO resonate just as they are. I believe mine is 17M (mislabeled), not 20M, and just looking to confirm that. Thanks & 73, Barry N1EU On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Bruce Nourish <w0...@w0mbt.net> wrote: > Did you have a counterpoise when you swept the antenna? If not, you're > only looking at half your antenna, especially as the RigExpert is almost > all plastic. > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016, 01:15 Barry N1EU <n1eu.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If anyone else out there has an MFJ-1820T and also an antenna analyzer, I >> wonder if you could please do me a favor. Please just connect the whip >> directly to the analyzer and tell me what the SWR looks like across the >> 20M >> and the 17M bands. >> >> I swept my MFJ-1820T with my Rig Expert AA-30 and my MFJ-1820T is resonant >> on 17M, not 20M. I'm wondering if I have a mislabeled MFJ-1817T. >> >> Thanks & 73, >> Barry N1EU >> >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
