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
>