Your theory is right but your numbers don't make sense to me. If you
snipped off some and the ch40 reading went down... then the ch1 reading
should have increased. By the way... Lil Wils are not much good. They
are notoroius for bad matching characteristics because of their very
short length. The performance of that short an antenna is very poor.

Professor
www.telstar-electronics.com


Big Kahuna wrote:
Ahoy.

I have a new CB and a new Wilson Lil Wil antenna. The instructions
with
the Lil Wil say to:

Check SWR on channel 1
Check SWR on channel 40
If channel 1 has a lower SWR than channel 40, cut 1/4" from the
antenna
top and measure again...continue until the SWR for channel 1 and 40
is
about equal.

Channel 1 gave me a nice low 1:1.4
Channel 40 gave me a nasty 1:2.8

So I snipped off 1/4" and measured again.

Channel 1 gave me 1:1.3
Channel 40 gave me 1:2.5

So my question is, snipping off that 1/4" really improved the channel
1
SWR but only dropped channel 40 a little bit. How many 1/4"
increments
am I gonna hafta snip before these two equal out?

Also, I'm guessing that at some point, channel 1 is going to start to
go
back up (instead of improving)...should I stop there and live with
whatever the higher channels are displaying? Rather than continuing
to
snip until 1 and 40 are about equal?

Thanks,

Kahuna