Steve, Scott, Jim, Dave, and All,
Thank you very much for your help. The antenna is tuned and now the traces
look like the ones on the dummyload.
It ended up with very little inductance, per suggestion from the group and
with the isolation transformer Scott suggested, but made with a bifilar
transformer wound on that 10-3/4 inch form because the TV Horizontal
transformer cause a phase shift for some reason.
Also, no matter what I did with Variometer connections, the inductance was
too high. I ended up using the taps at the bottom and about 1/2 of the
single bottom winding. Without any variometer action, it hit right on
137760!
Without the isolation transformer, everytime I came to resonance the voltage
waveform was awful, and I could not recognize resonance. With the
transformer, resonance is a beautiful set. When I get a digital camera, I
can send it to Steve or Scott.
I plan to solder all the connections another time. I am tired of working
out there in the mosquitoes.
Scott,
Do you have time tonight to try with VY1JA on about 100 Watts?
See you all next winter.
J
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