A FAILED EXPERIMENT - ADDING SLEEVE BALUN TO COCO
I have just now finished 8 hour trial runs of my old CoCo (3.5 element, 11cm element length) with & without Sleeve. The screenshots of VRS are given below. To me it looks that adding sleeve has improved near-range slightly, while removing Sleeve has improved far-range slightly, but the differences are marginal.
Note: The range rings are 50 kms apart. The outermost blue range ring is 450 kms from receiver.
Screenshot 1 of 2 : No Sleeve Balun
coco 11cm 3.5elem NO balun-R.png
Screenshot 2 of 2 : With Sleeve Balun
coco 11cm 3.5elem with sleeve balun-R.png
I have just now finished 8 hour trial runs of my old CoCo (3.5 element, 11cm element length) with & without Sleeve. The screenshots of VRS are given below. To me it looks that adding sleeve has improved near-range slightly, while removing Sleeve has improved far-range slightly, but the differences are marginal.
Note: The range rings are 50 kms apart. The outermost blue range ring is 450 kms from receiver.
Screenshot 1 of 2 : No Sleeve Balun
coco 11cm 3.5elem NO balun-R.png
Screenshot 2 of 2 : With Sleeve Balun
coco 11cm 3.5elem with sleeve balun-R.png
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