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Nice, keep the updates coming, what are you using as a balun? I did the loops of coax and couldnt get better than a 1:5 swr. Then after this thread started i moved my vertical up higher( bottom is now about 7' off the ground and i have no balun, just coax running perfectly perpindicular to antenna. In that process I realized my radiating wire( leg that is connected to center wire of coax ) was the lower part of antenna. So i flipped it around and have a perfect swr reading all of a sudden. The swr needle does not even move, i thiught something was wrong. So i guess it makes a difference what end is up!

[QUOTE="cjruger, post: 430548, member: 26972"] Nice, keep the updates coming, what are you using as a balun? I did the loops of coax and couldnt get better than a 1:5 swr. Then after this thread started i moved my vertical up higher( bottom is now about 7' off the ground and i have no balun, just coax running perfectly perpindicular to antenna. In that process I realized my radiating wire( leg that is connected to center wire of coax ) was the lower part of antenna. So i flipped it around and have a perfect swr reading all of a sudden. The swr needle does not even move, i thiught something was wrong. So i guess it makes a difference what end is up! [/QUOTE]

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