Used various SGC tuners and Icom AH-4. Also tried both of SGCs dual
loaded whips with varying results. The longer two piece unit worked
surprisingly well 80-10m years ago when conditions were better, even had
some fantastic 160m mobile contacts with it. The single 7ft version
lacks on 40 and especially 80m compared to the two piece whip but
compared to an unloaded 102” CB whip, it makes the CB whip look like a
dummy load on 40m and below. This is all with an SGC-230 feeding them.
Bob


Buck wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:06:48 GMT, Bob wrote:

Not counting the potential tuner problems you mention, my experience is
a 102” whip with no loading will work ok on 10-20m, but on 40m and below
it sucks.
Bob

with no tuning? you get acceptable match to your rig without a tuner,
would you explain more?

thanks
Buck