I built a dipole for 10m running it horizontal one leg of it runs about 3 foot above my roof the other leg is about 10 foot above my deck
It's being fed with some old RG8 I had laying around
the radio put out some where around 45-55 watts and sounds distorted on this antenna
it shows about a 1.5:1 SWR match at 28.415 Mhz
then the dummy load shows about 25 watts out
and the Maco V 5/8 which has a 2.2:1 SWR shows about 25 watts out and it sounds great (Tuned it for CB, just been too lazy to retune it for the HAM bands)
I had another General class HAM record me and play it back, while the dipole sounds louder it sounds quite overdriven
the Maco V 5/8 on the other hand sounds like butter
I really don't understand this...
It's being fed with some old RG8 I had laying around
the radio put out some where around 45-55 watts and sounds distorted on this antenna
it shows about a 1.5:1 SWR match at 28.415 Mhz
then the dummy load shows about 25 watts out
and the Maco V 5/8 which has a 2.2:1 SWR shows about 25 watts out and it sounds great (Tuned it for CB, just been too lazy to retune it for the HAM bands)
I had another General class HAM record me and play it back, while the dipole sounds louder it sounds quite overdriven
the Maco V 5/8 on the other hand sounds like butter
I really don't understand this...