Homer, I have a request. If you think about it when your fixing your longer antennas in the spring, and if you first end up with any sign of a bad tune, considering the rest of the antenna looks to be close, try working it for a bit even if only using RX signals. Do a few signal checks and see if you get similar results to mine...where I find the actual tune, within some degree of reason, does not notably affect performance in some remarkable way as you can tell working your radio, OK?op:
NOTE: I'm NOT suggesting you abuse your rig and TX with a sever mismatch however.
First of all, I don't take it you're suggesting any abuse.
I can do as you are asking. I noticed before on one of the threads where you said your antenna did not noticeably perform any more poorly when the match was less than perfect. I hunted for it earlier today but couldn't find it.
What I had on my mind was the fact that it is known that an antenna will likely not have resonance on the operating frequency at the best SWR. Which way it is tuned would need to be determined with an analyzer, preferably at the antenna (good luck with that
), but maybe it just happens to be resonant. There was a particular antenna you said you could never get to match properly but it seemed to work well. Which was it?