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From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
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Posted for Mark Steitle <msteitle@mail.utexas.edu>:
Eugene,
Thanks, good advice.  Since I don't know any ham operators, I'll check with my 
EAA chapter and see if they have a VSWR meter, or know of a local ham operator 
that also likes airplanes.
Mark


>I have the "slow build" tail and when I installed the com antenna in the
>tail (per instructions), I measured the VSWR over the com frequency ranges.
>An antenna movement of a couple inches made a HUGE difference in smoothing
>out the VSWR over the com operating frequencies. I would advise that before
>you finalize the antenna location, check the VSWR (find  ham operator with a
>VSWR meter) on your antenna installation and move it to get the best VSWR.