Finally got my Hy-Gain SPT 500 penetrator set up for 11 meter

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Well after months of waiting and reading up on this New SPT 500 antenna I finally finished it up today with results I can live with. I hope this helps someone else who wants to set it up for 11 meter. I first started out with setting it at 22' 6" and had acceptable SWR but wanted to get a better reading so I raised and lowered it multiple times until it was at 22' 8" with a 1-1.5 SWR on channel 1 and a 1-.5 on channel 40. Even though my raising and lowering was easy because of my custom built pivot mount I built and using a winch on my tractor I started to tire of playing around so the last time I changed it to 22' 9" and got a reading of 1-1.1 on channel 1 and a reading of 1-1.1 on channel 40, and a flat line reading on channels 17 19 and 20 the channels I use most. Good enough for me. Now I can't wait for the DX to start rolling in. Hope this helps somebody because their is too much mixed info on this antenna.

Cheers