Why did you do that? According to Telstar Electronics, you only need 9
square feet of ground plane.


I probably didn;t need them because of the water in the swamp. But I followed
the directions and specs. It took me about 1 1/2 days to tune it. The first day
I was scratchign my head with 3 and 4 SWR. I finally figured out that my autek
analyzer was broke. A standard SWR meter saidn I was pretty well tuned. The
biggest problen is adjusting, going back to the radio, and reading the meter. I
FRS radio and another person would have greatly reduced the tuning time. It
sould only take 1 hour or less.

Vinnie S.