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Darklife it happens. All part of the wonderful hobby.

I was building an 15 meter vertical, my 12 year old son in the shack checking vswr.
No matter where I adjusted the antenna my son said I had a 1:1 match.
After about 30 minutes of scratching my head and thinking I might have found the silver bullet for an all band no trap vertical I decided to walk in the shack and see what was really happening.
My son had turned the coax switch to dummy load position and I had great vswr no matter what frequency I was on.
I ordered an antenna analyzer the next day.

[QUOTE="wavrider, post: 733589, member: 9893"] Darklife it happens. All part of the wonderful hobby. I was building an 15 meter vertical, my 12 year old son in the shack checking vswr. No matter where I adjusted the antenna my son said I had a 1:1 match. After about 30 minutes of scratching my head and thinking I might have found the silver bullet for an all band no trap vertical I decided to walk in the shack and see what was really happening. My son had turned the coax switch to dummy load position and I had great vswr no matter what frequency I was on. I ordered an antenna analyzer the next day. [/QUOTE]

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