[TowerTalk] Re: tuning M2's 40m1L antenna

[Jonathan Kaplan]

Of course, I will call Mike--on Tuesday. In the meantime, I'm trying to
troubleshoot this myself (my own brand of Masocism). I've checked all my
joints and in retesting the SWR, I'm now seeing the meter jumping all over
the scale. When it calms down, it now shows 1.2:1 and 50ohms at 7ft on
7.1Mhz. That's great, but what is causing the SWR and resistance to jump
around, usually in sync? I tried unhooking the balun first to one side then
to the other. No intelligible results. What else can I try?

Thanks for your help

Jonathan KO6XS
-----Original Message-----
From: w5ozi <w5ozi@ktc.com>
To: Jonathan Kaplan <jonk@jskent.com>
Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: tuning M2's 40m1L antenna


>Why don't you ask Mike at M2?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Kaplan <jonk@jskent.com>
>Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.antenna,towertalk@contesting.com
>Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 10:51 PM
>Subject: tuning M2's 40m1L antenna
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>    I just finished assembling a brand new 40M1L and decided to
>>some priliminary tuning prior to raising it on the tower next weekend.
>Using
>>an SWR meter(MFJ-259) I tuned it at about 7 ft height. I know that at that
>>height, I'm not getting the best reading but can someone tell me what the
>>best one could expect before raising it on the tower?
>>The best I got was 3:1 at 50ohms at 6.70 mhz.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Jonathan KO6XS
>>
>>
>>
>


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