My 80m off-centre-fed dipole antenna has been up for a few days now.\u00a0 It’s up but I’m sort of shooting blind when it comes to knowing if I’ve got it right.\u00a0 I hate shooting blind.\u00a0 I had to make some educated guesses when building it, and with an off-centre-fed dipole you have not just the length but the feed point and balun to get right.<\/p>\n
So, I’ve been looking at different antenna analyzer options.\u00a0 Most are pretty expensive.\u00a0 One that is both less expensive and which also seems to have a lot of promise not just as an analyzer, but as a general purpose piece of test equipment is the Fox Delta AAZ-0616 <\/a>Antenna Analyzer.\u00a0 I have high hopes for its use as a sweep generator, and maybe (perhaps with a pair of them) as a poor man’s spectrum analyzer.<\/p>\n Mine is on order.\u00a0 More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My 80m off-centre-fed dipole antenna has been up for a few days now.\u00a0 It’s up but I’m sort of shooting blind when it comes to knowing if I’ve got it right.\u00a0 I hate shooting blind.\u00a0 I had to make some … Continue reading