[450] 10 meter mobile installation.

[David McKenzie]

insufficient ground for the antenna maybe


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:42 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ <kc1wj at kc1wj.com>wrote:

> I tried a few different "known good" jumpers. The antenna is brand new.
> You'd think the feedline would be okay. Bob came over last week-end with
> his antenna analyzer, but we just ended up sitting out on the deck shootin'
> the shit.
> Priorities, priorities.
>
>
>
> Quoting chris <cralt at comcast.net>:
>
>  Sounds like you have a bad connection in the feedline or the jumper.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 5:14 PM, William Knapp / KC1WJ wrote:
>>
>>  Trying to get things set up in Christine's car.
>>> Cannot tune antenna to under 2/1, made a 5 inch 5 turn choke from
>>> coax...no difference. I move my hand close to the rig and the swr goes down
>>> and then back up again. Moving the power cord or mic cable wildly effects
>>> the swr. I've installed bunches of rigs in cars, but I've never seen this
>>> kind of behavior with an antenna.
>>>
>>> Frustrated.
>>>
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