I don't think I'd worry about it all that much. It seems to be fairly
broadbanded, so I doubt that in a receive-only environment you would notice
any difference. I would believe that you would only have an issue if you
were on the very edge of the receiving range for whatever particular station
you wanted to monitor. In that case, having it "properly tuned" MIGHT get
you that extra tiny bit of signal to make the difference between hearing and
not, but even that is iffy.


"Mike Granby" wrote in message
oups.com...

I have an AV-5 airband antenna [1] hooked-up to my scanners, and it
just struck me that (doh!) I didn't tune it before I installed it.
Looking at their docs, I was horrified to see that the supplied length
of the elements is such that it's way off tune. From my math, it'll be
tuned to around 95MHz instead of the 125MHz that would be the rough
center of the airband. How big a deal is this? Do I have to get the
ladder out again? Or will the losses be managable in an rx-only
application?

[1] http://www.rami.com/gaa/antenna-info.cfm?pid=15