The MFJ-1796 Survived the night

The new antenna survived the first night with a bit of rough weather. It does move around a bit, but it survived. 

I reconnected it at 3am. I couldn't sleep, and our evaporative cooling does little on these rare humid nights.  FT8 was going off on 40m, and despite a good showing on the PSK reporter, I only managed a single QSO - to Slovenia of all places (and I wasn't showing up on the reporter there at all). 

I tuned around 40m to have a listen - a lot of traffic from up north - but all hams given the call signs. I did a tune around on the dipole as well just to compare, and yet again it seems that I wasn't missing anything between them. I was half tempted to have a crack at calling CQ, but given my tiredness and the proximity of the family - all of whom have had a rough night, I figured I'd avoid the noise. 

No further contact received from MFJ - I'm pretty sure that I've gone into their too hard basket. 

Given that the results between the SWR meter, the NanoVNA and the G90 are all on par (there is variation, but it's windy so the numbers move around), I figured I'd scope out each of the bands. I made 40m out of band just to document where the antenna is resonant.

SWR	Freq MHz
6.000	7.000
5.500	7.100
4.100	7.200
2.540	7.300
1.720	7.360
2.590	7.400
5.400	7.500
1.770	14.100
1.220	14.183
1.270	21.000
1.330	21.102
2.530	28.000
2.970	28.525
3.000	29.000
2.600	50.000
1.490	51.000
2.000	52.000
1.090	144.000
1.430	145.000
1.760	146.000
1.710	147.000
1.360	148.000

I might send this table to MFJ as well as some pics. I doubt I'll get a response - but at least I'll know that I tried. 

I would be nice to get this resonant around 7.100MHz. Until that happens there's no point messing with the rest of the antenna. Obviously there's a few improvements that could be made, especially from 10 down to 2m.

A backup plan I guess could be to fabricate more "long" spokes, install them in the 40m rings, test then trim appropriately. I just don't want to at this stage - I'd really like to push MFJ a bit harder to see if they can explain why an antenna that should be resonant around 6.8 (or 6.9 as this varies between talking to them and their doco), is resonant instead past 7.3.  It seems to me though, if the antenna isn't in the ball park when assembled, either I've done something wrong, or there is something wrong somewhere in this antenna (and I'm buggered if I can tell where).