Using two firestik antennas as a dipole on a mirror "L" mount. SWR is 4.0 whether I have a counterpoise or not. Tried it with and without a balun. Makes no difference. Went 6 to 8 turns and no change. Both antennas are 5/8 wave. Only difference is one is 3' (Hot) and the other is 4' (cold). Tuned both all the way they could go and nothing. Closest I can get is low to mid 26mHz. Analyzer isn't very specific on freq. and my ohms are about 30 with a single 18ft. of rg8x. Its acting like it has nothing to reflect off of. I do have the arrl ant. handbook but its from 1977 and talks mostly about using tuners which I know I can get this to work without one. Tried looking online but can't really find anything. I did find something about using 21 ft. of coax to wind a balun but it covers way more than I need it to and coax isn't cheap.