I agree with Jerry. Why not use an MFJ. I have two of their oldest
units one for HF and one VHF, the models 207 & 208. Bought mine a long
time before he put the to measuring devices together. They measure the
resonant freq. and that is what you want to know right? Mine have
worked fine for years and still do. His newer instruments are just
great. Wish I could justify buying the new MFJ-259B. I had the chance
to play with one and it is terrific. If you can't determin everything
about your antenna with that, well, you are just a lost soul in a techie
world. Friends still will borrow one or the other of my ancient units to
check their new construction or to find how far off their antennas have
become from the original design. MFJ makes affordable, accurate, devices
for Hams and as long as Martin F. Jue is running the place they allways
will.

Butch Magee KF5DE
Diamondhead, MS

Jerry Martes wrote:
Uwe

I'd like to hear more about MFJ, and why you dont want to hear more about
them. I was thinking that they were a pretty good way of measuring
impedance.

Jerry



"Jaggy Taggy" wrote in message
...

I recently got myself a noise bridge to do some quantitative measurements
on
my antennas.
Lets say I am a bit disappointed. The small dials of the unit make all my
antennas to appear very similar indeed and I am wondering if the unit is
broken (not according to the test I did with a known load) or if I am
expecting way too much.

What do real people use to do impedance measurements on their antennas (
and please do not suggest anything from MFJ).


73

Uwe