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 Posted: Mon Nov 13th, 2017 09:48 pm
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Tsquare wrote: The Wilson 1000 has a great system in that there are 2 allen screws holding the steel whip in the mount making it an easy system to tune.  The screws can be loosened and the antenna adjusted out to its max length. Record your SWR numbers on ch1 and ch40. Loosen and adjust the antenna 1/4" down into the mount and record you numbers again. Keep doing this until you get the lowest numbers on your SWR meter. If it has been dropping and you bottom out the antenna mast in the mount then it is time to start trimming it. You have about an inch of adjustment room.  
BTW: I am a RF field engineer
This is how I'd tuned it originally- I think I was somewhere around 1.5 on both 1 and 40.
Now I'm trying to figure out what's changed and causing it to be so high.