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If you have that good of swr, leave it alone!!! Glad you got it
working.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gery Gaubert wrote:
> Well we got the dipole up today. Swr is 1.4/1 with total 100 watts.
> Forward power is 99 and reflective is 6. I worked a station in
> northwest Arkansas he gave me a report of 5 9 and he sounded as though
> he was sitting right beside me. I know northwest Arkansas isn't all
> that far but I was so excited to be able to get on that I forgot to log
> his info which I regret now because afterall he was my first contact on
> hf. We didn't get the vertical up today, weather didn't cooperate and
> night time came. While the night time didn't bother me at all my
> brother and my dad said they needed to see. I will need about a 50 foot
> length of coax to get the vertical up and my son and I can handle that
> during the week. Thanks to all who patiently took the time to work with
> me on this, I can't thank you enough. Maybe some day I can help others.
> It really is neat once it all works. I may try to tune the dipole some
> more to see if I can get the swr lower but for now I will sit back and
> enjoy it. Also, my new general class appeared in the data base
> Gery Gaubert
> St. Charles Sheriff's Office Helpdesk Coordinator
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