1. The resonant point seems to be at 1.80 or below. 2. The broad response indicates high loss somewhere. If you hadn’t said that you changed it, I would suspect water in the coax.
Victor 4X6GP > On 1 Dec 2018, at 18:54, Leroy Buller <lee.bul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There > I tried to get on 160 with my Inverted L last night. 60 feet up and the > rest over to a tree, 130 feet total. About 20 random length radials in the > yard. The best I can do with a city lot. This antenna worked last year > very well, but now I get this > > 12/1/2018 10:46:08 AM NOTES: > > Frequency SWR > --------- --- > 001800000 1.3 > 001810000 1.4 > 001820000 1.4 > 001830000 1.4 > 001840000 1.4 > 001850000 1.5 > 001860000 1.6 > 001870000 1.6 > 001880000 1.5 > 001890000 1.5 > 001900000 1.6 > 001910000 1.6 > 001920000 1.6 > 001930000 1.6 > 001940000 1.6 > 001950000 1.6 > 001960000 1.6 > 001970000 1.7 > 001980000 1.8 > 001990000 2.0 > 002000000 2.1 > > There seems to be NO resonance at all with this antenna. Before, I could > operate the bottom of the band but nothing above 1850 without a tuner. I > have changed out the coax feeding the antenna which hepl bring signals up, > but it seems to be a dummy load. > > Anyone have an idea what is going on? Shucks, I am out of ideas. Unless > my ground plane has gone wonky > > My tuner can't find a match for it either. I have an automatice tuner now, > but it cannot find a match. Something is wrong here and I am stumped. > > Any help from the antenna gurus out there? > > Lee - K0WA > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 k2vco....@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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