Homemade VHF/UHF Antennas - Cascade Amateur Radio Society

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Test Equipment SWR Meter SWR Tester Antenna Analyzer Field Strength Meter
SWR Meter SWR meter is the minimum test equipment needed to tune an antenna. (frequency specific) An SWR meter measures how much power is reflected back toward the radio from the antenna When using this method you will need to announce your call sign when testing, and stay 5 KHz inside the ham bands
Page 2 and 3: What criteria am I looking for in a
Page 4 and 5: Gain What gain is How it is expre
Page 6 and 7: Gain Antenna gain can be specified
Page 8 and 9: Why do I care? Gain is a major fac
Page 10 and 11: Basic antenna types Dipole antenna
Page 12 and 13: J Pole
Page 14 and 15: Horizontal Dipole
Page 16 and 17: Vertical with Ground Plane
Page 18 and 19: Stacked Vertical
Page 20 and 21: Yagi
Page 22 and 23: SWR VSWR Voltage standing wave rat
Page 26 and 27: SWR Tester This is similar to an S
Page 28: Field Strength Meter A field stren

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