Hi Ted,
regarding the IMU feeder, I remember that it was early designed with an
internal diameter of 170mm. Later on it was reviewed to 165mm to achieve
a better polarization circularity. Going down to 154 mm it is a big
change so you would be exploring a new world. I guess you'll probably be
able to get it to resonate at 1296 MHz meaning to achieve a somewhat
acceptable return loss on the probes, but I have no idea or rather I
really doubt that you will be able to achieve good
circularity/isolation. This is for a W2IMU with screw polarizer. VE4MA
with screws it follows the same concept. These are normally time
consuming jobs so I'd really suggest you to start with the correct
diameter if you can. Anyhow GL with your experiments.
regs
Sergio IK2MMB
Ted Barnes ha scritto:
I have a piece of tubing 0.67 lambda diameter at
1296MHz rather than the
recommended 0.71. (6" ID rather than 6.5"ID)
Is it possible to use this with appropriate changes to the feed point etc
without degrading the feed performance noticeably?
Regards
Ted ZL2IP
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