antenna tuning

[Mr_Grinder]

I'm thinking of putting a antenna on the house . My question is do you have to set the swr in the mounted position ? And to change it if necessary do you have to keep taking it down ? Or can you set it while on the ground instead of the roof ?

[sonoma]

I put the antenna on a short pole about 6 foot off the ground and set the swr. that has worked for me. this way it is low enough to set the swr off a ladder.

[MDYoungblood]

On most base antennas the SWR will be close just by following the instructions. Like sonoma I generally built the antenna on the ground, double checked the measurements and SWR a few times before installing it. You didn't say what antenna you want to install, with that info we can give you a better answer.

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Greg

[jessejamesdallas]

yep. tune on a short 8-10' pole, then it should be pretty close to the same once up...Dual polarity antenna's are a bit tricky to tune on the ground, can be done by just rotating the antenna's boom to tune the horizontal elements.

[Mr_Grinder]

thank you all for your response's . i'm thinking ether a Solarcon MAX 2000 or a
Hy-Gain SPT-500 Super Penetrator . but you eased my worry's a great deal . i'm a big fan of easy and think i'll be able to handle this project . thanks again ...