Hi Ralph. I think the dialogue here has confirmed my suspicion that I/ we have nature induced swr rising. 😀 I’ll make an extension for my pole cutter and see if I can get to the 25’ branches this weekend. Ugh.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2021, at 12:22 PM, ralph phillips via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> > wrote: > >  > I agree the antenna should not touch any other object. > A curious study at my shack... I have an 80m inverted V running from house to > the 2 back corners of my yard. One near one corner is a latch of banana > plants. I cut them to the ground after the any freeze and have a nice swr. > As they grow my swr changes and I retune after a month. The capacitance of a > plant full of water off the side of the wire has a major impact. > The same will be true for any vegetation or other obstruction > > Ralph KE5HDF > > Get Outlook for Android > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
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