Monday, March 6, 2017

Comparing 3 Feed Line Lengths

I added another 3 ft of 450-ohm ladder line to my antenna feed line, bringing the total length of ladder line to about 99 ft. Using data measured by my antenna analyzer, I compared the current data with what I collected with the previous lengths of 91 and 96 ft.  Below are graphs that compare the SWR and impedance (magnitude) for the 80 m and 40 m bands.


SWR 80 m
SWR 40 m










|Z| 80 m










|Z| 40 m












Click on any graph to view it full size. These graphs show the effects of lengthening the ladder line feed while keeping the antenna length constant at 102 ft end-to-end.






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