Thanks for all the replies. I ordered the DB224 cut for the ham bands, so
the swr should be flat. I am going to take an antenna analyzer to the site
and see what it says. I am going to replace the RG8 jumper with some 9913
and eventually some !/2'" superflex. I am not concerned with de-sense at
the site as I do not rx any vhf there, I just rx the uhf link tx from the
site where the voter and all the uhf link rx are which is 8 miles away. The
375w tx just hooks to the feedline and then to the antenna. I am using a
pl259 only because that is what Motorola puts on their 357 watt Micor amp.
I have a brand new harness for the antenna so if the analyzer reports bad
news the harness will be replaced. Probably will do that anyway. At least
the antenna is on a building not a tower. I will look at the Bird site and
make the correct length jumper so when I remove it the tuning should not be
affected. Actually adding some remote metering would be cool and I could
just leave the meter line section in. There should be some remote metering
equipment surplus by now. Has anyone converted a 1kw commercial fm
broadcast tx to the 147 mhz range?... Another project. That way I can stop
using a commercial 2-way tx.
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