Phil,
I'm surprised at this.
At one time, I considered getting 'P'-series (0.45 - 2.5 MHz) elements
especially for use on 160. However, I was told that, for the high power
elements at least, the standard 'H'-series 2-30 MHz units were fine down to
1.8 MHz. My own experience with the 2500H has been supportive of this. I
was glad, because having to swap elements about when moving between topband
and the rest of HF would have been a real pain. What sort of errors have
you noticed with what sort of (powers of) elements?
Thinking about it, I'm not sure I have ever checked an H-series at exactly
1.8 MHz. Did you mean 1.8 MHz exactly, or were you just using 1.8 to refer
generically to topband? Whatever, I would still be surprised if for a
specified reading at 2MHz there was substantial error 200 kHz
lower. I'll warm the TX (and dummy load!) up later and check. I have a
few H-series elements and the TX will I think go down to 1.6 MHz.
Regards.
Mark.
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At 22:26 19/03/2005, Phil Clements wrote:
>Just a note for my fellow 160 meter operators. The 2-30 mhz Bird slugs are
>VERY inacurate below 2 mhz. At 1.8 mhz they read so low that you think you
>have amp problems or terrible efficiency. I once worked for hours on an amp
>to try to get the power output up to the level it was on 80 meters. I even
>went so far as putting in a plate choke with more L. All this time, the
>actual 160 meter output was > 80 meters! I hope this might save someone some
>grief that has'nt run into this yet!
>
>(((73)))
>Phil, K5PC
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