Only going from the last one I fooled with. I was unable to persuade the
owner he would be better off tuning for field strength than SWR and the
solution I purposed is one of many that will make a SWR meter happy along
with those folks who are cult members of the church of no reflections.

I make no claims that any other antenna in like or different circumstances
will ever exhibit exactly 35 +j0 Ohms. If I gave that impression to the
learned members of this conference, I humbly apologize for once again making
a broad statement with out a list of qualifiers. Mea Culpa :)

The ubiquitous SWR meter, the greatest generator of misinformation since
Baghdad Bob.





"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
...
Fred W4JLE wrote:
First, I would say that 1.7 to 1 is fine, leave it alone. It is what is
expected.

That being said, the strident need to be 1:1 can be met in several ways.
The
antenna will probably be around 35 ohms. giving you the 1.7:1 you
observe. . .

I'm curious -- how did you determine from the SWR that the antenna
impedance would be resistive, and assuming it is, that it would be less
than 50 ohms rather than greater? Perhaps you've measured a Hamstick on
a typical mobile mount?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL