Well I took the time to play with my dipole today to see if I could bring the SWR down to a acceptable level. When I first tried it a couple months ago I tried it with 75' of RG8U with a SWR of 1-1.5 but it went to the dogs with a amp. Today I tried 50' of RG213U and the SWR got even worse and totally unacceptable. After trying several SWR meters I find they are all reading better on channel 1 than on channel 40 so that tells me I have to shorten the dipole. I've never messed around with dipoles before so anyone have any helpful hints on the task at hand so I don't make a mess?