On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:43:14 GMT, "Amerigo Vespucci" wrote:


I tried pruning the antenna a couple of inches and fiddled with the feeder
line and manged to get mr SWR's down below two but with a tuner I'm still
not happy. My rig is a Kenwood TS 530S so the finals are a little more
forgiving

Amerigo,
Are you expecting that if you get the SWR lower your finals will run cooler?
Because the reflected power into them will be less?

(Hey Walt !! We need you)

Rick K2XT