It took me a little while to understand how a strong BCB station might do
this, but I assume it's because the MFJ "sees" the signal as reflected
power? I didn't (and don't) see that if I plug right into the antenna feed
line. Someone suggested dialing it in via the tuner/transmitter swr meters
and then checking the match via the MFJ289. I'll try that this evening and
report back the results (little embarrassed I didn't think to try that).
I'm not saying that isn't the case but I've been successfully using the
analyzer for some months on vhf antenna projects with quite low matches, and
I also periodically test the trapped vertical, and get back pretty good
matches on 10 15 and 20. Even 40 is pretty good. 75 is just very narrow,
but under 2:1
Thanks for everyone's help
jim w6jmf
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