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I recently tuned a 6m Moxon beam using my RE-55 Zoom. The final results:

[ATTACH]70051[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70050[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70049[/ATTACH]
I honestly don't pay close attention to a super low SWR. I'm looking at being close to resonance at my chosen frequency and getting the L (inductive reactance) and C (capacitive reactance) numbers as low as possible. Everything else, SWR, RL (Return Loss, the higher the dB the better) will usually follow to a good place.
Not saying this is the only right way to tune but it works for me and lots of other folks. The chase for nothing but a super low SWR can ignore other important aspects than may not leave your antenna as efficient as it could be even though the SWR looks wonderful on a meter.

There are ham operators the world over talking long distances using antennas having a SWR well above 1.3:1. The reflected power differences between 1.3 and 1.9 to 2 are minute and cause zero issues with any decent transceiver.

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<blockquote data-quote="Crawdad" data-source="post: 845482" data-attributes="member: 48522">I recently tuned a 6m Moxon beam using my RE-55 Zoom. The final results:[ATTACH]70051[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70050[/ATTACH][ATTACH]70049[/ATTACH]I honestly don&#039;t pay close attention to a super low SWR. I&#039;m looking at being close to resonance at my chosen frequency and getting the L (inductive reactance) and C (capacitive reactance) numbers as low as possible. Everything else, SWR, RL (Return Loss, the higher the dB the better) will usually follow to a good place.Not saying this is the only right way to tune but it works for me and lots of other folks. The chase for nothing but a super low SWR can ignore other important aspects than may not leave your antenna as efficient as it could be even though the SWR looks wonderful on a meter.There are ham operators the world over talking long distances using antennas having a SWR well above 1.3:1. The reflected power&nbsp; differences between 1.3 and 1.9 to 2 are minute and cause zero issues with any decent transceiver. 7 3</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crawdad, post: 845482, member: 48522"] I recently tuned a 6m Moxon beam using my RE-55 Zoom. The final results: [ATTACH alt="20240828_085608.jpg"]70051[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="20240828_085630.jpg"]70050[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="20240828_085645.jpg"]70049[/ATTACH] I honestly don't pay close attention to a super low SWR. I'm looking at being close to resonance at my chosen frequency and getting the L (inductive reactance) and C (capacitive reactance) numbers as low as possible. Everything else, SWR, RL (Return Loss, the higher the dB the better) will usually follow to a good place. Not saying this is the only right way to tune but it works for me and lots of other folks. The chase for nothing but a super low SWR can ignore other important aspects than may not leave your antenna as efficient as it could be even though the SWR looks wonderful on a meter. There are ham operators the world over talking long distances using antennas having a SWR well above 1.3:1. The reflected power differences between 1.3 and 1.9 to 2 are minute and cause zero issues with any decent transceiver. 7 3 [/QUOTE]

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