Catwalker

 Remember this antenna I was working on?

Well, I had no idea of how well it would perform or its
characteristics, well, now I do, here is a graph of
the SWR on it across the entire HF spectrum:

The SWR is high (sometimes EXCEEDINGLY high)
where I need it low, and low where I don't care.

It does this same form of pattern right up to
about 54 Mhz, then there is one last dip at around 60 Mhz,
from there up, it is high.

I have been using it with an antenna tuner, but, due to
the location on our deck, and the, sub-optimal
performance shown above, I'm not making a horrendous
number of contacts.

Add having to use low power and I am not overly impressed,
guess I need to change the design...

Oh well, onward and upward.

Update:

The connection between the VNA and the antenna
was jury-rigged in the image above, but, with a
proper SMA to PL259 adapter, the differences
aren't that great.

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