[TowerTalk] Tuning Antennas with the MFJ-259

[Richards]

In my brief experience using my MFJ antenna analyzer, I have found it is 
best to get your antenna as far away from objects, such as your 
workbench, your back deck, the ground, trees, metal eavesdropping, etc., 
as possible.  If you lay your antenna on the ground, or on an object, or 
even on the roof of your house, it will not show the correct SWR and 
other readings pertinent to the tuning your antenna.  Try to set them - 
even hang them from a ladder, or from a tree branch,  or do whatever you 
can do to isolate them,  and put them in as close a position as you can 
which is like the operating position they will be in permanently.

Just MY take...


=============   Richards - K8JHR ===============



AD5VJ Bob wrote:

> 
> 1. Can you tune an antenna while it is not erected, like laying on a work table with this analyzer, or do you have to have it
> installed and in place first and can you tune it with the coax hooked up or do you have to be at the antenna.
> them