Date   : Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:07:13 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Free Stuff Tranche III [Results]

On 10/08/2010 17:44, J.G.Harston wrote:

> I knew a rajo ejineer who would carefully trim to length the signal
> and ground feeds to the transimitter aerial so they were a measured
> different length. Apparently it helped somehow.

Reflections back arriving in a different time and/or phase to the 
outgoing? I remember a vague bit of stuff like this with SWR metering on 
CB kit. It was astonishing how a *tiny* change in the antenna length 
(many of them had some sort of adjustable part) would mean massive 
changes in SWR. Never used a burner, but did use a half-wave. Thank God 
the UK took its own set of freqs, for the CEPT channels were often full 
of Latinos (sounded Italian to me, but I may have been wrong). 27MHz, in 
Somerset. Either ~'93 was a damned good year for skip, or they were 
pumping out enough RF to make Chernobyl's hiccup seem a minor event.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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