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Subject: R5 on tower
From: steve@gamecash.com (Steve Weisbrod)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 96 09:22:00 -0600
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Dan I have not done anything special to my R7000. I used my MFJ 259 to   
tune it to the phone portion of the bands. I think I put it at 14.220 on   
20m. It is not in an ideal location as I have large trees all around some   
within 12ft. I have about a 100ft of RG213 feeding it.I'm not sure it   
hears all that well because I have nothing to compare it to. Sometimes I   
hear local hams working some DX that I can not hear but they have beams   
on towers which I am planning in the spring. Again my R7000 is mounted   
8ft off the ground.

Steve W8GAZ
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From:  Dan Arney
Sent:  Wednesday, December 18, 1996 2:55 PM
To:  Steve Weisbrod
Subject:  Re: R5 on tower

Steve I have an R-7000 and it is mounted on a 10' piece of black
pipe and guyed with Dacron on my flat roof. I checked it the MFJ
analyzer and looks pretty good. 20M is a little high on SWR. Can
hardly hear dip squat on anything unless is loud. My old R-7 in
same place did a lot better.

 I left my 5BTV in Zambia and it was a lot better hands down over
the R-7. What kind of luck are you having in tuning it. Or better
yet what is the secert? it set up as per the manual. Any help would
be appreciated. I want to use it as a listen antenna on my FT-1000
primarily.

Thank, "Hank" KN6DI  

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