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Re: [TowerTalk] Phasing stacked tri-banders (or,"can you check my homewo

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Phasing stacked tri-banders (or,"can you check my homework?")
From: "Tom Sessions" <k4rv@mindspring.com>
Reply-to: k4rv@mindspring.com
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:53:22 -0400
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Could incremental lengths of coax be used to phase two different antennas?

Just suppose I have a brand M 4 element monobander and a brand H 6 element
monobander, each for the same band, stacked on a rotating tower.  I have no
idea of the length of the feedline to each and I want to feed them together
for biggest DX signal.

Could I add coax increnentally to one of the feedlines, and then transmit a
signal thru both simulatanesously to be received at a distant ground wave
station in order to determine how much extra coax would bring the signals
from the two antennas into phase. I am thinking that the length of extra
coax yielding the strongest received signal at the far station would
indicate proper phase for DXing.

Lengths of 1/10 wavelength,  2/10 wavelength, 4/10 wavelength and 8/10
wavelength, just four lengths of coax, would incrementally cover every
tenth of a wavelength for the experimental coax.

Anybody tried this?
Comments?
Suggestions?

thanks/73
Tom K4RV




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