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High Swr??

I'de be happy to look up my data on said topic if you would like, however, I think it would be worthy of its own thread...


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Don't do it on my account, it's been a few years since I've messed with an antenna and I'm not sure when I will again. I need to do maintenance on the quad this fall, but I'm good there. I really only hang out here to aggravate you guys(y) But seriously, if you wanted to start a topic on the 259b, I'm sure it would be informational as I suspect (I could be wrong) most people use theirs as an expensive SWR meter.

Seriously though, I'm in one of those "radio down times" and I'm not sure where I'm going when I get time again. But if I remember, you could figure out if the antenna was capacitive or inductive if you knew how to work with complex impedances you just had to switch modes a few times and do some math. I'll dig it out next week and play with it on both my antenna and a dummy load.

EDIT____
I would be interested in the info on that 222 phase meter, for someone who works on antennas daily it could come in real handy maybe.
 

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