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Default Supposed comparison of Mobile HF Antennas in November QST

Art Clemons wrote:
"Would not a more reasonable approach be to use something like a
Wattmeter and get the antenna resonant?"

You have a point. The wattmeter was on the input to the tuner and we
don`t know what the tuner`s loss is. If the loss is negligible,
everything should be OK, and "the input power was the same on each
antenna."

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

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On Oct 27, 12:15 am, (Richard Harrison)
wrote:
Art Clemons wrote:

"Would not a more reasonable approach be to use something like a
Wattmeter and get the antenna resonant?"

You have a point. The wattmeter was on the input to the tuner and we
don`t know what the tuner`s loss is. If the loss is negligible,
everything should be OK, and "the input power was the same on each
antenna."

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI


I received back a fairly detailed email from the QST editor
involved... I will reply to him next week... I will incorporate some
of the comments on here - with attribution to the author(s)..
Everything (except private comments) will be shared here...
Right now, back to the inhumane QRN on 80 meter cqww...

denny / k8do

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