[TowerTalk] Explorer 14 w/ QK-710 kit

Jack k4wsb at arrl.net
Sun May 19 11:45:52 EDT 2013


I've used mine successfully 'as is' Dave... not sure how much 
benefit, if any,  you'd get with messing with the settings.

At 10:17 PM 5/18/2013, Djordan (personal) wrote:
>I've installed the Hy-gain antenna on a 60' self-supporting 
>crank-up.  The SWR curves are good and within the bands; 40m is flat 
>at 7.255 MHz, 20m is flat at 14.200 MHz, 15m is flat at 21.300 MHz, 
>10m is at 28.400 MHz.
>I'd like to tweak the antenna a bit to optimize it for my favorite 
>portion of each band.  Hy-gain does not provide any instructions 
>regarding tuning the antenna.  Has anyone tried tweaking this beam?
>73,
>Dave
>wa3gin

Jack Hartley
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