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Changing the coax feeding the antenna to a good quality low loss grade,
followed
by tuning the antenna for the frequency range your using, would give more
useful benefits. The receive improvement gained here, is also not to be
sniffed at.

Just how do you tune an antenna? In the old CB days we would ajdust the
lenght of the antenna until we got a good SWR. I can't see cutting into
the tail of my LS6 to do that.

Tony V.

Tony Verhulst wrote:

Changing the coax feeding the antenna to a good quality low loss
grade, followed
by tuning the antenna for the frequency range your using, would give more
useful benefits. The receive improvement gained here, is also not to
be sniffed at.

Just how do you tune an antenna? In the old CB days we would ajdust the
lenght of the antenna until we got a good SWR. I can't see cutting into
the tail of my LS6 to do that.

Tony V.

I measured it in my LS4 once, and saw something really good, about 1.1:1.

If Malcolm believes you need a 10X factor in transmitter power to make
a noticeable improvement, then I suppose he'd also believe you need to
increase the radiated power 10X by tuning in order to make a difference.
No factory installation is going to be subject to that kind of
improvement, unless you have an open or short somewhere in the system.

-Dave