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Old November 27th 07, 03:35 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
James barrett James barrett is offline
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Default using an MFJ-941E tuner on all bands?

On Nov 26, 7:22 pm, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:

I added two 20m elements of #16 insulated stranded wire (lamp cord,
actually) and ran them downslope toward opposite corners of the garage roof.
They make about a 45-degree angle with the 10m antenna. Construction
articles encourage separating elements of different bands. The first
measured 20m elements were too long and the SWR dipped at 12-something MHz.
I trimmed them to 14.1 MHz, SWR = 1.1:1 at the radio. The only change to
the 10m performance was a very slight increase in SWR (1.5:1 vs. 1.7:1 per
MFJ-269).



Hi, I don't understand how you can add elements to an existing antenna
and have it still work on the band it was originally made for. Do you
still need a tuner? Or do you remove the 20m elements to transmit on
10m?

Jim