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[TowerTalk] Antenna analyzers and parallel conductor transmissionlines

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna analyzers and parallel conductor transmissionlines
From: Steve <steveac@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:41:59 -0500
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The antenna analyzers one finds marketed to hams all seem to have an SO-239 connector.

Can one use these devices with antennas fed with parallel conductor transmission lines such as open wire or ladder line?

If so, how do you connect the parallel conductor line to the antenna analyzer? One wire to the center pin and the other wire to the threaded body of the SO-239?

Do you lose any antenna analyzer functionality when using it with parallel conductor transmission line as compared to coaxial transmission line?

Are any particular antenna analyzers better suited to parallel conductor transmission lines?

Are any particular antenna analyzers favored for measuring the extremes of resistance and reactance (and particularly correctly indicating the sign of the reactance) that one encounters at the shack end of a 100ft dipole fed with parallel conductor transmission line operated and in the 160 through 10 meter amateur bands?

Thanks,

Steve K8JQ

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