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Hi Phil
My antenna tuned perfectly until I added the 160 coil, then I had to retune the whole thing and had lots of woes until I finally found that sweet spot on each band where the SWR was down where it belonged. It has been a long while and I don't remember, but I did have to make a NEW feed coil in place of that enameled wire one that was more than twice as many turns, same diameter, before anything came close to tuning up right. I used the same gauge wire as the original, just made it with twice as many turns, spacing was closer also. I did find it's best to leave this new coil on a tube because it gets bumped easily. What I did was cut the bottom out of a plastic cylinder about 14 inches in diameter and placed that around the antenna base. A little round-up inside the container from time to time and a box of salt kept the weeds out. TTUL Gary |
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