Saturday 20 June 2020

Dipole for 30 m tuned

Ran my new Rigexpert Stick 230 antenna analyzer on my multi-band fan dipole. Seems most are a bit short, which is a problem as they need lengthening :( One band however was too long, 30 m resonant around 9.930 Mhz, so just needs shortening a bit.

Shorted each leg of the dipole by about 10 cm. Another scan showed resonant around 10.140 Mhz, a very good match!

The tuner in the IC-7300 lowered the SWR even further. I mainly use 10.136 Mhz the FT-8 working frequency so good match there.

A good test, worked S53R in Slovenia, so its getting out well.

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