I don't blame you, Jerry.  J-poles can be wonderful antennas if properly 
tuned, but they are touchy as all getouts, so if you aren't certain of how 
this one is tuned, I might be reluctant to use it until you can get someone 
to check it out.

But if you get the spacing and feedpoint right on it, the J-pole will give 
a very good account of itself.  I had a copper J-pole up for a while, and 
it performed like a champ until I dumped too much power into it and melted 
the feedpoint connections!

73, de Lou K2LKK



73, de Lou K2LKK

At 03:18 PM 10/4/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a 2 meter ringo ranger antenna andalso have a j-poll for 2
>meters.  I can't use the j-poll because I don't have a way to check the
>swr with the j-poll.  The ranger and the radio were tuned before I got
>them.=20
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