Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Richard Clark wrote:
Common advice I've seen is work with the most wire first.

Common advice using common sense. An 80m dipole can be close
to resonance on 10m (big effect) but a 10m dipole is completely
non-resonant on 80m (virtually no effect). And a 5% adjustment
to an 80m length equates to a 40% adjustment to a 10m length.

Been there, just did it to a Field Day G5RV . . Uggg . . "Tack some
wire back on it."

In mathematical terms, tuning the shortest wavelength antenna
first is a *diverging* infinite series, good for sun tans
but bad for ham operating time.

Richard:Cecil: Makes sense, bottoms up!

Tnx.

w3rv