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Thanks for the info Eddie. My antenna is tuned for the bottom of the band around 50.200 MHz. As I mentioned in the thread the dimensions I presented may be a little off due to tweaking . The hairpin should not contribute to a poor match and in fact the match is very good at 50.125 MHz. I do not recall he exact impedance at the moment but an antenna analyzer was used and not just an SWR meter. The SWR rises sharply above 52.5 MHz however. On-air performance has been great and the F/B and F/S seems better than what your numbers indicate. It is hanging on the back side of the shop right now but is to go up sometime in the next month or so. I will take more accurate measurements at the time and present them here again.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 556559, member: 39"] Thanks for the info Eddie. My antenna is tuned for the bottom of the band around 50.200 MHz. As I mentioned in the thread the dimensions I presented may be a little off due to tweaking . The hairpin should not contribute to a poor match and in fact the match is very good at 50.125 MHz. I do not recall he exact impedance at the moment but an antenna analyzer was used and not just an SWR meter. The SWR rises sharply above 52.5 MHz however. On-air performance has been great and the F/B and F/S seems better than what your numbers indicate. It is hanging on the back side of the shop right now but is to go up sometime in the next month or so. I will take more accurate measurements at the time and present them here again. [/QUOTE]

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