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| Author: | Se7enLC [ Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | 3 foot firestik failure... |
Ok, so I currently have a 4 foot firestik which works great. I decided to replace it with a 3 foot firestik, figured it would help my clearance getting into garages, and since the 4 foot was so good, 3 foot shouldn't be too much worse, right? WRONG. My 4 foot firestick is tuned to an SWR around 0.2 or so. It kicks some serious @$$. I change nothing else except removing the 4 foot firestick and screwing in the 3 foot firestik. It pings a TEN. If I screw the terminal all the way down and remove the spring, I can get it to a 1.5, but only on channel 1, and as soon as I put the end cap on, it's back to at least a 4. Everywhere else in the full tuning range is between a 5 and 10 SWR. For now I guess I will stick with the 4 foot ugly white antenna, but this is a little ridiculous. Has anyone else out there tried a 3 foot with any success? |
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