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Never seen a setup like that. I would say that is ideal in the fact you can lengthen the whip for the CB band since a 102 whip is a little short. You could also mark the whip with a sharpie for 10 meters so you can easily tune it there if needed. You should be able to cover 12 meters and possibly 15 meters since a 1/4 wave would be just over 10 1/2 ft. To do this you would definitely need some inductance matching.

Interesting why your analyzer originally gave pretty good readings before but your newer readings are what you should expect to see now. I checked 102 whips before and the impedance usually shown a value between 34 to 37 ohms.

Be sure if you try the shunt coil that you install at the antenna feed point to be most effective. The purpose of this coil is to add some feed point inductance rather than using a lossy coil in the antenna itself to match the feed point impedance to 50 ohms.

<blockquote data-quote="fourstringburn" data-source="post: 551506" data-attributes="member: 2920">Never seen a setup like that. I would say that is ideal in the fact you can lengthen the whip for the CB band since a 102 whip is a little short. You could also mark the whip with a sharpie for 10 meters so you can easily tune it there if needed. You should be able to cover 12 meters and possibly 15 meters since a 1/4 wave would be just over 10 1/2 ft. To do this you would definitely need some inductance matching.Interesting why your analyzer originally gave pretty good readings before but your newer readings are what you should expect to see now. I checked 102 whips before and the impedance usually shown a value between 34 to 37 ohms.Be sure if you try the shunt coil that you install at the antenna feed point to be most effective. The purpose of this coil is to add some feed point inductance rather than using a lossy coil in the antenna itself to match the feed point impedance to 50 ohms.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fourstringburn, post: 551506, member: 2920"] Never seen a setup like that. I would say that is ideal in the fact you can lengthen the whip for the CB band since a 102 whip is a little short. You could also mark the whip with a sharpie for 10 meters so you can easily tune it there if needed. You should be able to cover 12 meters and possibly 15 meters since a 1/4 wave would be just over 10 1/2 ft. To do this you would definitely need some inductance matching. Interesting why your analyzer originally gave pretty good readings before but your newer readings are what you should expect to see now. I checked 102 whips before and the impedance usually shown a value between 34 to 37 ohms. Be sure if you try the shunt coil that you install [B][U]at[/U] [/B]the antenna feed point to be most effective. The purpose of this coil is to add some feed point inductance rather than using a lossy coil in the antenna itself to match the feed point impedance to 50 ohms. [/QUOTE]

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