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If you have an antenna with high swr and you start cutting it, you will end up with a good swr. But maybe it needed to be longer, would have done the same thing. But now the antenna was cut and looks ok. Keep cutting it and it will look bad. Then cut it some more and it will look good again. But will be far away from the frequency you want. This is where the antennalyzer would keep you at your resonant frequency. Then fix the swr with a matching network.

[QUOTE="Shadetree Mechanic, post: 761977, member: 50927"] If you have an antenna with high swr and you start cutting it, you will end up with a good swr. But maybe it needed to be longer, would have done the same thing. But now the antenna was cut and looks ok. Keep cutting it and it will look bad. Then cut it some more and it will look good again. But will be far away from the frequency you want. This is where the antennalyzer would keep you at your resonant frequency. Then fix the swr with a matching network. [/QUOTE]

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