[VHFcontesting] SWR issues with CC 424B

[Donald Fox]

GA all:
I hope everyone who wanted to enjoyed the contest this weekend. I had hoped to add 432 to my band options, but could not attain a reasonable SWR on the 424B I was hoping to put up. 
I had it about 8 feet above ground, horizontally oriented, and could not tune it below 2 to 1. I did find one of the spade terminals for the coaxial balun with a cold solder joint, and hoped that would be the fix. I also disassembled the DE, and cleaned up all of the connection points with some emery cloth.

I understand it's not the best antenna, but for what I have in it, I'd like to make it work, at least for a starter antenna.
Feel free to reach out off list via taurusshoguy at yahoo.com.

TIA

Don   N8ECH