"garry crothers" wrote in message
Ron

If you are worried about damaging the vhf, then contact a local ham radio
guy who has a vhf swr meter, e.g a bird43, and ask him to measure the swr
of the aerial. shud be less than 1.5.

regards
garry

Garry, I am going to do exactly that. A guy I work with is a ham and
happens to have one. I am going to test it next week.

Thanks
Ron