Padraigh ProAmerica wrote:

end. What type of resistor and how much ohmage?

There are several antenna books which make the same suggestion, so I have
no way of citing the original source.

They all sugest you take a mechanical hour timer and connect a terminating
potentiomiter to the shaft of the timer, start the timer and record the
noise from the antenna. Note where it reaches the minimum.

A more modern possibility is to use two HT's and have one person monitor the
noise, while the other adjusts the resistance.

You probably could do it with a laptop, wifi and skype, but that may affect
the results.

Geoff.


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