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I stretched my wire out for a 1/2 wave and cut it in two 110" sections (11m) and strung out my ladder wire. I have about a 35' run of 300 ohm ladder wire to the top of my roof. I tucked all the wiring under the lip of the shingles covering the hips. The antenna splits the roof and the ladderline runs the center hip perpendicular to the legs of the dipole. I fabbed up a balun/choke out of used coax-17' wrapped around a 2" piece of PVC with eye bolts for the ladder line and a 239 connector to jump back to my radio. I placed this near the eave of my roofline by my 1/2 car garage/workshop. At the antenna end of the ladderline I put 6 wraps the size of my fist into the line and tie wrapped it tight.

After 4 trips up trying to tune this thing I ended up with 102" x 2, 204" total, of antenna and a SWR of channel 1, 19, 40; 3:1, 1.5:1, 5:1.

Any tips on tuning this setup without making another 4 trips up a ladder and up a stupid high pitched roof? I basically spent some google time and found several setups like this that worked for other people. Mine isn't what I'd like it to be.

<blockquote data-quote="Brake Weight" data-source="post: 403365" data-attributes="member: 24001">I stretched my wire out for a 1/2 wave and cut it in two 110&quot; sections (11m) and strung out my ladder wire. I have about a 35&#039; run of 300 ohm ladder wire to the top of my roof. I tucked all the wiring under the lip of the shingles covering the hips. The antenna splits the roof and the ladderline runs the center hip perpendicular to the legs of the dipole. I fabbed up a balun/choke out of used coax-17&#039; wrapped around a 2&quot; piece of PVC with eye bolts for the ladder line and a 239 connector to jump back to my radio. I placed this near the eave of my roofline by my 1/2 car garage/workshop. At the antenna end of the ladderline I put 6 wraps the size of my fist into the line and tie wrapped it tight. After 4 trips up trying to tune this thing I ended up with 102&quot; x 2, 204&quot; total, of antenna and a SWR of channel 1, 19, 40; 3:1, 1.5:1, 5:1. Any tips on tuning this setup without making another 4 trips up a ladder and up a stupid high pitched roof? I basically spent some google time and found several setups like this that worked for other people. Mine isn&#039;t what I&#039;d like it to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brake Weight, post: 403365, member: 24001"] I stretched my wire out for a 1/2 wave and cut it in two 110" sections (11m) and strung out my ladder wire. I have about a 35' run of 300 ohm ladder wire to the top of my roof. I tucked all the wiring under the lip of the shingles covering the hips. The antenna splits the roof and the ladderline runs the center hip perpendicular to the legs of the dipole. I fabbed up a balun/choke out of used coax-17' wrapped around a 2" piece of PVC with eye bolts for the ladder line and a 239 connector to jump back to my radio. I placed this near the eave of my roofline by my 1/2 car garage/workshop. At the antenna end of the ladderline I put 6 wraps the size of my fist into the line and tie wrapped it tight. After 4 trips up trying to tune this thing I ended up with 102" x 2, 204" total, of antenna and a SWR of channel 1, 19, 40; 3:1, 1.5:1, 5:1. Any tips on tuning this setup without making another 4 trips up a ladder and up a stupid high pitched roof? I basically spent some google time and found several setups like this that worked for other people. Mine isn't what I'd like it to be. [/QUOTE]

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