[TowerTalk] re-tuning steppirs for lowest vswr

[john at kk9a.com]

Normally designing an antenna is a compromise between the SWR curve and the 
F/B and gain is basically a function of boom length.  Since the SteppIR 
adjusts at various frequency increments,  I would guess that it always close 
to the optimum setting for gain, F/B and SWR.

John KK9A


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Subject: [TowerTalk] re-tuning steppirs for lowest vswr
From: "Al Williams" <radioman007 at comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:58:52 -0700
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I think I recall the Steppir people telling us that the max fwd gain vs 
lowest
vswr may (probably?} occur at different element lengths.

Perhaps someone (Steppir?) can tell us how much variance in gain there is 
when
changing
the factory settings to user determined vswr settings.

k7puc