In article .com,
"Mark / Amy Read" wrote:

All of this is to say that I am very pleased with the unit and the
installation. One final thought for putting the lower insulator low to
the deck is that this increases the length of your backstay (antenna).
The longer your antenna the farther your signal will go and the better
you can get signals.

-Mark Read
www.GoReads.Com

And just where did you learn your RF Electronics? The length of the
antenna starts at the HV Connection of the Antenna Tuner, and ends at
the farthest point of the wire at it's insulator. It makes very little
difference to the radio if that is mostly Backstay, or GTO-15 feedline.
It is the totality of the wire that counts, not which section is which.
Just how close any one section gets, to any Grounded item, is also
somewhat important, as this adds Output Capacitance to the tuners
constraints and can cause the tuners autotune algorythem to do funny
things, if there is to much.

Bruce in alaska
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