Given a long enough feedline, one can make anything at the antenna end look
like a perfectly matched load in the shack...even an open- or
short-circuited coax. That's why we can use 100 feet of open-ended RG-58 as
a well-matched 50-watt dummy load at 1296 MHz.
Here's a question to ponder:
Given two equal-electrical-length coaxial lines around 1000 feet long,
terminated at the opposite end with a non-reactive 75-ohm load, and measured
with a $128,000 Agilent VNA at 1000 MHz:
Line 1: RG-213
Line 2: 1-5/8" HELIAX
Assuming that the lines' electrical lengths are such that we present the VNA
with a non-reactive load, which line is most likely to show a better match
to 50 ohms on the VNA?
I've posed this question in a slightly different form to many degreed RF
design & test engineer interviewees over the last 18 years. Only ONE has
given me the logical answer.
73,
Dan KB5MY
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K7LXC@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:38 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com; RadioIR@charter.net
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New Cushcraft XM240 Trouble
In a message dated 4/12/2006 8:44:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> Your analyzer could also be lying to you.
After working on over 200 ham tower/antenna installations, the only
thing that matters to me is how the antenna looks in the shack at the end
of the feedline. That's my bottom line. Sometimes an antenna looks a little
funny when measured up on the tower but looks FB in the shack ( e.g.
C31XR).
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
Cell: 206-890-4188
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