I bought a used super antenna mp1 at a hamfest for my POTA and portable work its a early version far as I can tell but I'm having some major issues getting it to tune. (Didn't come with the plastic guide gage)
I went out yesterday to try to try it out with my mfj analyzer and set the freq and tried to tune the swr with the slider and couldn't seem to get anywhere with it.
As a example I was trying to tune 20m in the approximate area and had a reading of 5 something swr! (Slider was closer towards the bottom of the coil) I tried slowly moving it up the coil and it wouldn't change. Finally I moved it all the way up the coil and it only moved .1 SWR! Something like this happened to different degrees on all bands.
I came home and put my multi meter to it and everything had good connectivity top to bottom of coil, slider and everything together.
Anyone have any idea? Could it be the meter? I'm at a loss...
I went out yesterday to try to try it out with my mfj analyzer and set the freq and tried to tune the swr with the slider and couldn't seem to get anywhere with it.
As a example I was trying to tune 20m in the approximate area and had a reading of 5 something swr! (Slider was closer towards the bottom of the coil) I tried slowly moving it up the coil and it wouldn't change. Finally I moved it all the way up the coil and it only moved .1 SWR! Something like this happened to different degrees on all bands.
I came home and put my multi meter to it and everything had good connectivity top to bottom of coil, slider and everything together.
Anyone have any idea? Could it be the meter? I'm at a loss...