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I think the kit for this old beam was probably designed to be fixed construction. Just follow the color codes, the tag numbers, or whatever, put it together and that's it. Everything goes in the proper place...it's like plug and play. If you don't have the instructions...then you just have to do the old trial and error bit...just like you tell us you've done.

There probably was no effective tuning to be done, because Shakespeare tended toward electrically match all of there antennas...using short stubs or small capacitor type tuning, and I think this old beam was no different. They also used very thin wires, and that too would result in much shorter overall elements...in addition to what the FG random affects were.

These are not facts...just my opinions on what was likely.

[QUOTE="Marconi, post: 437046, member: 903"] I think the kit for this old beam was probably designed to be fixed construction. Just follow the color codes, the tag numbers, or whatever, put it together and that's it. Everything goes in the proper place...it's like plug and play. If you don't have the instructions...then you just have to do the old trial and error bit...just like you tell us you've done. There probably was no effective tuning to be done, because Shakespeare tended toward electrically match all of there antennas...using short stubs or small capacitor type tuning, and I think this old beam was no different. They also used very thin wires, and that too would result in much shorter overall elements...in addition to what the FG random affects were. These are not facts...just my opinions on what was likely. [/QUOTE]

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