Three months later, I'm still having Antenna problems.

Age and ice from a winter storm brought the horizontal leg (#20 Teflon coated silver) so, I replaced it with a run of #15 coated magnet wire. The "smoke" was gone again. I could only get a decent match at 10.130 MHz and and the 40 meter band.

I'm using a MFJ-259 analyzer (the first edition - SWR and impedance only) looking at the radio input trying to ballpark the band setting for the tuner but, i'm not having any luck tuning the upper ham bands. I went back to a new run of #20 teflon wire but still cannot tune the upper bands, I think that I have a problem with the leg that runs up vertical and goes across the roof, That's the part I cannot get to without building maintenance unlocking access to the roof. It possible that the foamvar insulation may have rubbed off at the edge of the roof. I gotta come up with a bribe.....

I have thought about cutting the vertical leg and running that side horizontal around the building and securing it with a dogbone insulator.

I lucked up the first time and, I cut my antenna to the proper length for the " 'Lectric-wave" but these next few times, not so lucky.

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