How many high-powered BC stations do you have around?
Wes N7WS
On 8/21/2019 8:55 AM, N4ZR wrote:
I just put up an inverted L, with a vertical length of about 60 feet, and a
total of 135 feet. It is fed through 16 turns of RG-400 on a ferrite core at
the base. There are, as yet, no radials.
Because I was impatient to see what was going on, I grounded the shield to a
single copper-plated ground rod and connected my MFJ259B. I expected a high R
value, and I got one - 112-122 ohms. But surprisingly (to me), lowest SWR was
at 2.070 MHz, and X remained at zero over quite a wide range - all the way
down to about 1.7 MHz.
Is this all to be expected? I plan to put down at least minimum radials in
the next few days, and would expect the R value to drop as I do so. Am I
off-base?
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