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Old June 4th, 2014, 21:11   #42
WPJ
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: GTA/Toronto
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Originally Posted by Cobrajr122 View Post
Changing the length of the antenna will not change its designed impedance. As long as it presents 50 Ohms load on the opposite end of the transmission line as the generator its good.

Seeing as the majority of people on here will be running their antennas directly to the radios, SWR is nearly a nil factor as there is no transmission line for it to reside on.



Yep, that was the whole point of my sentence, there is a guy who works for IC that plays with us and happily uses these radios alongside us at games.
Actually it does and it can be a dramatic change hence the warning, if you don't believe me place an antenna analyzer on the antenna when t is as designed then bend touch it etch then watch it go from say 1.5 to over 10-20 ouch.
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