Dave,
Yes it's nicely under 3:1 on 40 and 15 meters for sure and if i had equipment for 6m its good there as well so i guess if the markers say this setting is for 7m then would it be right to say it is tuned for 7.0 Mhz or what the markers say it should be?
Can this be tuned further via custom measurements and tweeking the choke turns and or core?
I do have to say that despite it being over 3:1 at 14.230 i certainly hear a ton of stuff there i didn't hear before at s9+10 earlier. What happens with the kenwood if you try and tune with a match over 3:1 does it give some kind of warning, lol. I just got this radio a few weeks ago. Have one cleaned up but still need to clean the gunk from the vco circuit and fix the key bounce on the other one.
I do have room to make the wires longer so i suppose if i wanted to get down to 3Mhz it may be possible i think i might experiment with that tomorrow or later tonight since I am a night owl.
One question on the choke i created, this works great for this ant which is centre fed. What would I do if i used a single wire instead of this setup and fed it from one end which is more likely going to be the only way i can get this thing higher on my property.
