Notices by John K2ZA (k2za@mastodon.hams.social)

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73 de John K2ZA (hams.social Moderation Team Member)

@Radical_EgoCom And she was a union comrade too, Communications Workers Of America (the same union I belong to). Hope her family gets some justice in the courts, but I’m probably kidding myself…

@KI5SMN Hang a dummy load at the antenna end of the feed line. If your element lengths are in the ball park the SWR shouldn’t be that high (3 or 4:1 would be more believable). There is something else going there I think…

@KI5SMN If you have the calibration loads for the VNA, you do. One of them is 50 ohms. You will probably need an adapter though. They’re also very easy to build if you have a soldering iron…

@KI5SMN Here’s a pdf with a very practical dummy load project…

http://snocohams.net/docs/DummyLoad.pdf