and no, not you dave.

for the most part i'm a new ham. i've put this diamond NR73B on my jeep, i'll be running a yaesu HT, FT3D. the antenna is a dual band antenna.
to tune this antenna will the only adjustments made be at the base, at the element holder?
or, will one band be tuned by making adjustments at the element holder? and the other band adjusted
by the phase inductor?

if tuning can be accomplished for both bands by only one adjustment then that's pretty efficient. and if that is the case i'd have to ask how. i'd speculate that it's due to the ratio of the antenna length to wavelength of those two bands are such that this is why one antenna is able to work with 2 bands.

i could prob wait and call the shop i bought it at monday and they'll have the answer, but i'd like to work on this tomorrow, sunday. i havent hooked up an SWR meter yet, so, it may be tuned pretty good from the factory. tomorrow i'll be going down the road to get away from buildings and into an open space so i'd prefer to know how to make adjustments ahead of time in case some tweaking needs to be done.

thanks for taking a look here.

73

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