On 7/26/2022 9:05 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
But yeah, if you're throwing a dipole for 40m up in a tree, measurement to the nearest inch/cm is probably good enough.
This brings me to a thought that I have had for many years.? Just to nit pick a bit more for science, I hear people say that they "cut the dipole to 50 ohm resonance" when in actuality I believe that they are cutting the dipole to an impedance match.? I've never taken the time to model the antenna in software (on my bucket list to learn this skill) but I really wonder what that does to the radiation pattern.? Probably insignificant on HF frequencies but it would be interesting to put a measurement on the difference.
73, Joe, K1ike
