<div dir="auto">Here's mine, inspired by Kent. Didn't have extra PVC pipe laying around, but found that a Costco brand drink has diam of 60 mm. Wound 10 turns of coax around the plastic bottle. Like Kent didn't want to waste 1400 mm of coax, so just cut a piece of cheap low voltage wiring and soldered to center conductor. Will see how it does tomorrow.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mike D</div><div dir="auto">N7GND</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 11:54 PM Randy Tomer <<a href="mailto:w6ra.randy@gmail.com">w6ra.randy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Kent, it looks like your swr has climbed to nearly 3:1 down in the low part of the band where ssb is used.<div>I'm surprised at how narrow the useable swr bandwidth is. Lets see how the others do, it may just be a</div><div>characteristic of the antenna's design.</div><div><br></div><div>73, Randy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:17 PM Jeff Moore <<a href="mailto:tnetcenter@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tnetcenter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have to agree with Kent - SWR meters lie. In addition, contrary to popular belief, low SWR isn't an indication that your antenna is working well (or working at all)! You can have low SWR and still have a dummy load hanging on the end of your transmitter. An analyzer is a much better option, but even then - analyzers look at what goes to your antenna, not what comes out of it</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff Moore -- KE7ACY</div><div>.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:05 PM Kent Garliepp <<a href="mailto:kent.af7qo@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kent.af7qo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Dave,</div><div dir="auto">SWR meters lie all the time. In truth most are impedance meters. We mostly use them in order to keep our modern transistor radios happy. Most of them, like mine, should be called antenna analizers. That said, my transceiver will be happy, but, will I if nobody hears me?</div><div dir="auto">73,</div><div dir="auto">Kent AF7QO</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 4:50 PM Dave <<a href="mailto:dave@freitags.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dave@freitags.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Kent,</p>
<p>Great job. Looks like a spider with the tie wraps, but SWR
meters don't lie ;-)</p>
<p>73, Dave<br>
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<div dir="ltr">OK you got me I'm in, both FM and SSB vertical.
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<div>Had to build an antenna though. I found a mobile RG58
cable that had one bad end in the junk box. It has foil
but what the heck. It wasn't long enough and I really
didn't want to strip 50 inches of coax anyway so I
stripped a short bit and soldered on 50+ inches of lamp
cord. I found an almost two inch vitamin bottle in the
recycle bin and wound on an extra turn just in case. I
doubled over and twisted the end of the lamp cord so it
was 50 inches long. This leaves extra for tuning and a
loop to tie to.</div>
<div>Ya! It tuned out the gate, not perfect and not pretty,
that will come later.</div>
<div>See the attached pictures.</div>
<div>BTW, this is also called a sleeve dipole.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OK we will be experimenting with
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<p class="MsoNormal">50.52 is the freq……</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Listen on SSB first to see if anyone
can hear anyone else…….</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">……then we will toggle over to the FM
side to see the same thing.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Those listing on SSB when someone is
on FM… will hear odd noises.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Very informal and who can do what.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If interested in participating….let
me know who can do SSB and FM or</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">....Max</p>
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