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twinlead tuning indicators
In article , "rb"
wrote: Memory has usual cob webs. Help clear it....... When I feed twinlead, seems I might use a small fluorescent bulb to show how it's doing. If a small fluorescent bulb will do this, do I just tune for "max smoke" while holding it near the twinlead? Can't recall if a small flourescent bulb will do this or not. If radiation is cancelled, not sure how it would fire. I vaguely remember we used to use twin lamps, wired backwards for this purpose. One way you had SWR on one side; the other way you had SWR on the other side. Neither light being lit meant good SWR. RB- My cobwebs are probably worse than yours. As a teenager back in the 50s, I used a "Full Windom" antenna (off-center-fed-dipole) fed with 300 Ohm TV twin lead. The SWR measurement circuit I used probably came from an ARRL publication. It consisted of two 6 Volt dial lamps connected to each end of a section of twin lead. I think it was two or three feet long. The whole thing was taped to the transmission line. There was a connection at the center of this on one side to one side of the transmission line. As I understood it, one lamp was supposed to glow and not the other. I think both of mine glowed, but one was definitely brighter. Of coarse I did not know what I was doing and had no real understanding of SWR. I made contacts, so never worried about it! Using a fluorescent tube, I would expect it might glow at points along the transmission line where voltage was high and extinguish where voltage was low. With a low SWR, there would be no high voltage points. Or maybe no nulls? Fred K4DII |
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