Hi Wanting to build a vertical dipole the quick and easy way, I bought a pair of 75 meter hamsticks and the matching dipole bracket. I used a noise bridge and SWR meter and tuned each hamstick to be resonate just above 3.9 MHz. When I then mounted both antennas on the bracket the resonate frequency dropped to 3.4 MHz. Any ideas on what happened? Do I really need to go through the entire tuning process again? Thank you. God bless, Mark God loves you! My ham radio lists. http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list My personal website http://funhamradio.bloki.com