On Aug 23, 6:15*pm, "Peter O. Brackett"
wrote:
Antenna Newsgroup Denizens:

Apart from the professional 'lab grade' (and undoubtedly very expensive)
devices made by the likes of Agilent, there are on the amateur market
several antenna analyzers that are more reasonably priced.

I'm currently considering the purchase of such a device, and so...

I'm interested in hearing opinions, pro-con arguments, and/or receiving
pointers to reviews of such devices.

All thoughts and comments will be appreciated, unbiased or not.

Thanks!

-- Pete k1po
-- Indialantic By-the-Sea, FL

i presently have 3 analyzers... an mfj269 which i use for taking up
towers to check antennas when i have doubt about the coax or switch,
checking tuning real quick on anything, and doing simple cable loss
checks. then i have a minivna which i am still learning to use, but
which has proved very helpful in tuning stubs and checking filters.
it also does the tuning checks from the shack but requires a pc for
operation so wouldn't be very useful up a tower. my third one is a
home made tdr, just a decent scope and pulse generator set up to do
tdr on cables from the shack end. indispensable for finding damaged
cables, isolating bad connectors or relay boxes, etc. i wouldn't want
to be without any of them right now.