[Antennas] tuning an antenna

[Chris Boone]

Part of your problem is trusting anything from Radio Shack......coax,
connectors, meter, etc...

Seriously!!!

Got a Bird wattmeter handy?

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Antennas] tuning an antenna
> 
> Hi all!!
> I built a Lindenblad antenna. Unfortunately, it's not resonant in the 70cm
> band. A friend suggested tickling it with rf from an 8640b and watching on
my
> 141t to see where the maximum power transfer was (so that I could
> determine it's resonant freq). Then trim it appropriately.
> 
> My radio shack swr meter says 6:1 in the 70cm band.
> 
> Can I tune each of the four folded dipoles individually?
> 
> Ideas? Questions? Comments?