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Hasan,
If you download program ENDFEED and insert details of your antenna and ground radials system, you will find the impedances closely agee with what you actually get. (I'm always very happy when this happens.) Enter the exact 80-meter band frequency at which you have found your own antenna to be 1/4-wave resonant. Then slightly prune antenna height until the program says the antenna is 1/4-wavelength long. Very likely your antenna horizontal section is sloping. As a final check, do with the program what you have done with your own antenna, and subtract the RF ground resistance from the antenna input resistance to give the radiation resistance. (The radiation resistance is not displayed by the program although, obviously, it is used internally.) The primary purpose of the program is to calculate the L and C values of three different impedance-matching networks (tuners), which you may find useful. Radiating efficiency is also calculated and displayed. Download ENDFEED, an old program of mine, from website below. ---- .................................................. .......... Regards from Reg, G4FGQ For Free Radio Design Software go to http://www.btinternet.com/~g4fgq.regp .................................................. .......... |
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