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I know we had a conversation about if resonance was your best preforming adjustment of an antenna. And swr has been beat to death too. But let me see if I can twist it some more. It’s too chilly for me to be interested in trying this right now but I’ve been curious about trying this out to see if it makes any difference.

I run a tarheel 2 with a 60” stinger on a ball mount with a 6” spring in my mobile and I have an inline swr meter. The antenna mount is about 24” of coax from the radio after it loops through the remote swr sending unit.

Pick a frequency. Pick a qso. Tune the antenna to the max S meter reading. Now check the swr. The swr is always higher. If you tune to swr the rx S meter is always lower. If tx follows rx? If rx is peaked does it follow that tx is peaked as well or does rx suffer?

The question I have is where is best? I’ve not tried it yet in a proper method of tuning transmitting and hooking up the van to see if there’s a difference and where for tuning in transmit ability. Dx won’t matter I’m sure but local com might. If it did I don’t know how much.

<blockquote data-quote="nfsus" data-source="post: 852102" data-attributes="member: 19649">I know we had a conversation about if resonance was your best preforming adjustment of an antenna. And swr has been beat to death too. But let me see if I can twist it some more. It’s too chilly for me to be interested in trying this right now but I’ve been curious about trying this out to see if it makes any difference. I run a tarheel 2 with a 60” stinger on a ball mount with a 6” spring in my mobile and I have an inline swr meter.&nbsp; The antenna mount is about 24” of coax from the radio after it loops through the remote swr sending unit. Pick a frequency. Pick a qso. Tune the antenna to the max S meter reading. Now check the swr.&nbsp; The swr is always higher. If you tune to swr the rx S meter is always lower. If tx follows rx? If rx is peaked does it follow that tx is peaked as well or does rx suffer?The question I have is where is best? I’ve not tried it yet in a proper method of tuning transmitting and hooking up the van to see if there’s a difference and where for tuning in transmit ability. Dx won’t matter I’m sure but local com might. If it did I don’t know how much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nfsus, post: 852102, member: 19649"] I know we had a conversation about if resonance was your best preforming adjustment of an antenna. And swr has been beat to death too. But let me see if I can twist it some more. It’s too chilly for me to be interested in trying this right now but I’ve been curious about trying this out to see if it makes any difference. I run a tarheel 2 with a 60” stinger on a ball mount with a 6” spring in my mobile and I have an inline swr meter. The antenna mount is about 24” of coax from the radio after it loops through the remote swr sending unit. Pick a frequency. Pick a qso. Tune the antenna to the max S meter reading. Now check the swr. The swr is always higher. If you tune to swr the rx S meter is always lower. If tx follows rx? If rx is peaked does it follow that tx is peaked as well or does rx suffer? The question I have is where is best? I’ve not tried it yet in a proper method of tuning transmitting and hooking up the van to see if there’s a difference and where for tuning in transmit ability. Dx won’t matter I’m sure but local com might. If it did I don’t know how much. [/QUOTE]

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