I am very happy you did get off track talking about the astroplane Eddie, you made my evening
when i first put it up vswr on my kenwood sw200 meter with the coupler screwed to the radio was as i reported,
i was not happy with the vswr put performance was very good at such a low height,
you asking about vswr made me remove my old dentron supertuner to see where vswr was lowest,
vswr is very low all across your band, minimum vswr point is 27.025,
the 1.5:1 vswr points are 26.0mhz & 27.500,
what changed apart from my vswr been much lower than before,
nothing on the antenna system changed at all, but the radio did change,
my FT100D was playing up oscillating & occasionally showing high vswr on the radio, it was a simple lack of any grounding connection between case & chassis,
some dumbasses at yaesu coated the case with a none conductive coating then in a lame attempt at fixing the oscillation added farty little strips of copper tape that do nothing at all & ground & shield things that don't need it.
