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G6Tanuki · 14th Jan 2018, 12:06 pm

Pocket VNAs are quite nifty - you can get some now that use your phone as the display.

[my most-recent antenna tweaking involved multiple trips up and down ladders/scaffolding in the rain. Not fun when it's a 3-band antenna and the adjustments for the various bands all interact!]

More options: http://www.aa5tb.com/efha.html - my portable version is based on his Fig.15, with the 'cold' end of the tuned circuit connected to the coax braid and also to a short earth-lead with an alligator-clip which I attach to the same barbed-wire fence whose fencepost provided the anchor-point.

14th Jan 2018, 12:06 pm	#39
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,007	Re: What’s a relatively decent (old) transceiver for my needs? Pocket VNAs are quite nifty - you can get some now that use your phone as the display. [my most-recent antenna tweaking involved multiple trips up and down ladders/scaffolding in the rain. Not fun when it's a 3-band antenna and the adjustments for the various bands all interact!] More options: http://www.aa5tb.com/efha.html - my portable version is based on his Fig.15, with the 'cold' end of the tuned circuit connected to the coax braid and also to a short earth-lead with an alligator-clip which I attach to the same barbed-wire fence whose fencepost provided the anchor-point.