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Offline grumpydoc

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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2013, 04:26:05 pm »
Surely you just plug the banana into the banana plug!
 

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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2013, 04:45:53 pm »
Surely you just plug the banana into the banana plug!

Nah, you plug the banana plug into the banana, of course. What you propose is akin to plug a wall into a wall-socket. :D

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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2013, 08:39:47 pm »
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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2013, 11:15:02 pm »
Nah, you plug the banana plug into the banana, of course. What you propose is akin to plug a wall into a wall-socket. :D

Like this? Seems somebody though it was a good idea...
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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #29 on: February 22, 2013, 12:13:12 am »
Surely you just plug the banana into the banana plug!

Is this compatible with plantains?
 

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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2013, 05:31:02 am »
And under the heading "What other people are reading", we find:

How to Measure an Antenna's Signal With a Multimeter

http://www.ehow.com/how_12130900_measure-antennas-signal-multimeter.html

where they use the ohms range on the Multimeter to "Measure an Antenna's Signal".!!!!
 

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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #31 on: February 22, 2013, 12:52:05 pm »
The topic title is not so far off, it is indeed possible to measure the impedance of an antenna or other network with a multimeter.  ;)

But you need 3 of them and RF detector probes, google for impedance measurement 3 Voltmeter methode, this is from the time before impedance bridges and impedance ( RF-IV) meters, vector voltmeters  and VNAs. ( if I remember well it can also be done with 3 current meters)

I never tried it, but it is still on the to do list. But there are more ( forgotten) ways to to IV impedance measurements, like using a double ballanced mixer and voltmeters.
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Re: Who knew you could measure UHF antenna's impedance with a DMM?
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2013, 12:15:06 pm »
Ha ha ha what a topic !!! :o

and that comment from 'sacherjj' about measuring banana resistance is one solid piece of entertainment.   :-DD

may be I should start learning about how to use a DMM again ..  :P
 


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