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Still at it . Went as far as removing the paint from the antenna ( nice and shine silver). Tested the swr at the antenna. Still no luck. Best swr is 1.8-1.8 1/2.
Made a brand new bottom shaft out of 3/4 copper tubing. ( threads at coil are 1/2x20). I going to play with ground straps on the...
Yes I spoke to Kale, and it was he who suggested to use RG8 over RG213. He also said not to worry about using 18'. He said to use just what I needed to get from point A to point B
I am going to hook up the swr meter at the antenna and see if there is any difference, I am also going to re check all my solder joints. I think I am going to cut my coax down to exactly the length I need instead of using the whole 18'. I think I can get away with as little as 12'. And I will...
Thanks for all the help.
I will do some more testing this weekend.
Here is a picture of the coax I have bean using. I'm not sure which one is better , maybe some one can answer this.
Thanks
Tony
Thanks for chiming in.
You lost me on bandwidth
When I changed the coax from a 213 to a RG8 I was able to get the SWR's down from a 1.8 to a 1.4. The only difference is I just routed the RG8 around and threw the window Instead of running it under my truck and through the floor like the 213...
UPDATE .
I spoke to Kale today. I am running 18' of RG213. He suggested to try RG8. So I took 18' feet of RG 8 and ran it along the out side of my truck and I was able to get my SWR's down to 1.4 across the band. So this weekend I will run the RG8 coax exactly how I have the RG213 run to...
Ok. I extended my shaft , just for grins.
I didn't want to go out and buy a longer shaft before doing some testing.
I got it above the roof about 10"
The total length of the bottom shaft is 27". The whip is trimmed down to 36"
This gave me the best SWR @ 1.8.
So if I go out and buy a 27"...
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