No. Not true. I run 6 feet on my 1000 mag. 1.1 swr's on channel 35.

Great antenna btw. I don't know if you can beat one for the
ease/money/performance.

Don

"Guntier C." wrote in message
...
I received and old wilson 1000 mag. mount and want to put it on my quad (4
magnet) mount. I hear that I need a 18 ft. piece of coax for a
counterpoise. Is that true? Any info appreciated.

Thanks,

G.C.

isn't a 1:1 swr reading a fallicy (sp?). not saying that your equipment
is relaying false readings but a 1:1 match in theory should be impossible.
i have the 1000 also and agree that it works well. on the other hand the
old 102" whip worked the falkland islands on 12 watts.

M-Tech wrote:
No. Not true. I run 6 feet on my 1000 mag. 1.1 swr's on channel 35.

Great antenna btw. I don't know if you can beat one for the
ease/money/performance.

Don

"Guntier C." wrote in message
...

I received and old wilson 1000 mag. mount and want to put it on my quad (4
magnet) mount. I hear that I need a 18 ft. piece of coax for a
counterpoise. Is that true? Any info appreciated.

Thanks,

G.C.

Hell Jim, every measurement made using ANY equipment could be a fallacy if
taken out the correct(to disprove)decimal point:-)

I'm just saying (for my own comparative measurements) on my Dosy meter I've
tuned my 1000 for 1:1 on 35 and I KNOW it talks nice:-) I'm SURE it's not
because of the 1:1 measurment, but because of the antenna....and I'm doing
it without 18' of coax....just 6'.

I also talk all over, from Alaska to Turkey from my mudduck mobile here in
pa:-)

Don
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"jim" wrote in message
et...
isn't a 1:1 swr reading a fallicy (sp?). not saying that your equipment is
relaying false readings but a 1:1 match in theory should be impossible.
i have the 1000 also and agree that it works well. on the other hand the
old 102" whip worked the falkland islands on 12 watts.

M-Tech wrote:
No. Not true. I run 6 feet on my 1000 mag. 1.1 swr's on channel 35.

Great antenna btw. I don't know if you can beat one for the
ease/money/performance.

Don

"Guntier C." wrote in message
...

I received and old wilson 1000 mag. mount and want to put it on my quad
(4 magnet) mount. I hear that I need a 18 ft. piece of coax for a
counterpoise. Is that true? Any info appreciated.

Thanks,

G.C.

Jim:

No, a 1:1 match isn't a fallacy... but it's extremely rare. It IS
possible to have a 50 ohm output impedance on the radio, a coax cable
that is actually 50 ohms impedance, and an antenna that presents a 50
ohm impedance at its feedpoint. Possible, but highly unlikely...

For example, the 1:1 I'm seeing on the meter in my Pete is probably
1.03:1 or something... but the meter I'm using doesn't have that kind
of resolution.

1.03 is close enough to 1 to say, ok.. good enough.. especially
considering the fact that anything under 2:1 will be just fine.

-SSB

jim wrote:

isn't a 1:1 swr reading a fallicy (sp?). not saying that your equipment
is relaying false readings but a 1:1 match in theory should be impossible.
i have the 1000 also and agree that it works well. on the other hand the
old 102" whip worked the falkland islands on 12 watts.

M-Tech wrote:

No. Not true. I run 6 feet on my 1000 mag. 1.1 swr's on channel 35.

Great antenna btw. I don't know if you can beat one for the
ease/money/performance.

Don

"Guntier C." wrote in message
...

I received and old wilson 1000 mag. mount and want to put it on my
quad (4 magnet) mount. I hear that I need a 18 ft. piece of coax for
a counterpoise. Is that true? Any info appreciated.

Thanks,

G.C.

jim wrote:

isn't a 1:1 swr reading a fallicy (sp?). not saying that your equipment
is relaying false readings but a 1:1 match in theory should be impossible.
i have the 1000 also and agree that it works well. on the other hand the
old 102" whip worked the falkland islands on 12 watts.

M-Tech wrote:

No. Not true. I run 6 feet on my 1000 mag. 1.1 swr's on channel 35.

Great antenna btw. I don't know if you can beat one for the
ease/money/performance.

Don

"Guntier C." wrote in message
...

I received and old wilson 1000 mag. mount and want to put it on my
quad (4 magnet) mount. I hear that I need a 18 ft. piece of coax for
a counterpoise. Is that true? Any info appreciated.

Thanks,

G.C.





cheers on the spell check guys
50 ohm impedance on all points may be fine but inherent loss on the
connections makes it impossible to achieve perfect matching. closest
thing i've seen is hardline connections on some of the navy test
equipment (CASS) that i've worked with. that was up in the gigahertz range.