Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Antenna Cock-Up

Well, what a bloody muppet!

AC6LA has informed me that, as impressively built as the ADS-B antenna is, its wrong. It seems that what ive built isnt a beta match (hairpin), but a gamma match! This might go some way to explaining why im still not picking up any signals!

After a fair bit of head scratching and looking at lots of drawings online, admittedly mostly of VHF hairpins on beam antennas, I think I know how its done!

Time will tell. I think though, that I will also build a simple wire colinear, just in case!

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