Then I got to WFD and threw up my design on my MastWerks 10m mast. I’d been playing with my Buddistick clipped to my porch railing. The other wrinkle I’ll throw in here is from a recent lesson I learned. I have setting those up down pretty well. I use my standard Buddipole Deluxe and Buddistick setups without a problem. I’m not trying to over think this, but honestly I’ve been underutilizing my shock cord whip because I really don’t know how to get started. Just blindly throwing something up and using it as long as the SWR is not bad enough to melt the finals can work but can also mean a tremendous loss of energy before it gets radiated. I believe I understand your point, but it assumes a level of naivety that I don’t have. There are a few sun spots these days and they are a hams friend. Just tune for maximum noise and watch the SWR that it isn’t too high and play radio. Some of us get too hung up on having everything perfect and get discouraged too easily. I always made contacts even with lousy antennas (by today’s standards). The other side of the coin is what we did when Novices back in the 1960’s. Besides, as stated I am not sure the noise tune method is possible with the shock cord whips. Often my setup involves not having a radio available (not close enough) for the noise tune method. My question was supposed to be about where to start and how to tune with the antenna tuner. The results will change with each different location.I have several antenna analyzers and am a big fan. Write down you results as a starting point the next time you use the antenna. I have one and an analyzer tells me where I am in frequency, impedence and SWR. Tuning a Buddipole without an antenna analyzer is cut and try and wastes a lot of time. This Blog is mainly dedicated to Amateur Radio (Ham radio) and contains external articles and personal esperiences.On Feb 28, 2021, at 05:47, David Wilcox wrote: IT System Engineer, recently started having fun with morse code and Raspberry Pi Licensed Amateur Radio operator in 1996 as IW5EDI, active member of ARI Firenze and ARRLĬlass 1970, married with two childrens, love experimenting and antenna home-brewing.
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