[Antennas] Cushcraft R7 tuning

[Ed Griffin]

>
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:44 -0600 "Jim Best" <wu7g@attbi.com> writes:
> >
> >Can anyone give me a hint on tuning the R-7.  I bought a used one
> >and the adjustments that the previous owner had used were way off
> >for my location.  Then I connected a ground and everything changed
> >again.  Low SWR is on the lower freqs and 40 meters tunes around
> >7.070 mhz, twenty tunes at 14.100, seventeen tunes at the low
> >end of eighteen, 15 meters tunes at the low end of fifteen. Ten
> >and twelve meters seem to be OK.  Does one actually move the
> >capacitance rods in and out?  I tried that on 10 just for grins and
> >couldn't move it.



you may find this page helpful..............
http://www.iol.ie/~bravo/r7_vertical.htm

73
Ed






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