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I bought what I thought was a 2 meter 5/8 wave antenna made by workman. It is called the slim line 58. It turns out that it has an SWR of 1.9-2.1:1 and impedance of around 150 ohms at 144 MHz. I tuned the antenna analyzer to 6 meter and it showed an SWR of 1.2-1.5:1 and impedance of 50 ohms. Turns out that it is a 6 meter antenna. It is the same type of antenna as a Hustler SF2. It has 12 windings on the loading coil. What I want to do is to strip off the coil wire and wind it so that it will work with 2 meter. My question is, how many turns should I put on and what would be the spacing between the turns?

[QUOTE="Xy3lon4, post: 86198, member: 3156"] I bought what I thought was a 2 meter 5/8 wave antenna made by workman. It is called the slim line 58. It turns out that it has an SWR of 1.9-2.1:1 and impedance of around 150 ohms at 144 MHz. I tuned the antenna analyzer to 6 meter and it showed an SWR of 1.2-1.5:1 and impedance of 50 ohms. Turns out that it is a 6 meter antenna. It is the same type of antenna as a Hustler SF2. It has 12 windings on the loading coil. What I want to do is to strip off the coil wire and wind it so that it will work with 2 meter. My question is, how many turns should I put on and what would be the spacing between the turns? [/QUOTE]

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