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Old December 22nd 05, 02:21 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Clark
 
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Default antenna 'measurements' - can of worms

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:14:37 -0800, dansawyeror
wrote:

Oh yes. The antenna is 5 to 7 and ground is 15.

Richard Clark wrote:
Did you include the 20 - 40 Ohms of Earth/Ohmic Loss in your Model?


Hi Dan,

Then it appears you are not measuring the radiation resistance + loss,
but rather its transform through the tuning of the
'large' screwdriver design


You might want to test your HP8405 against a 50Ohm load at the end of
the drive line, against known mismatched loads, and some measure of
the Q at each these nulls.

Do you choke the measurement drive line?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC