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Talking to myself...
Did a bit more modeling to get rid of the segmentation check warning about the coupling loop having segments too small on 40M. I had to change down to an octal loop for the coupling loop to give me wiggle room on the loop size. I found that playing with coupling loop diameter and placement distance from the bottom loop interacted and changed the coupling loop impedence presented to the source. In general lowering the loop will make it more capacitive and lower the resistive portion. Making the loop smaller raises the resistive portion and raises the capacitance as well. So I moved it up until the reactance got pretty small then fiddled with the size until the resistance approached 50ohms then moved it up or down to again reduce the reactance. Lots of fiddling. I suspect that indicates a similar level of sensitivity to size and placement in the real world as well. After playing a bit I got the SWR down to 1.3 or so. Retuning the capacitor back to the 23pf and retesting at 20M shows a reasonable match (1.2) there as well. So it seems that a likely approach for tuning the match loop would be to do it on 40M then test at 20M where it appears to be a bit less critical. |
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