change in swr with move of the aerial

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change in swr with move of the aerial

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I have manged to get my dipole aerial higher up but reception is much reduced. The aerial was placed very close to a chimney breast and it seems that it is that which was effecting the reception, effectly reducing the power of the signal by half. When I moved to aerial away everything worked fine again, maybe there is something conductive in the chimmney?

Is there anything which could be done to the aerial that would counter act the effects of this? increasing or decreasing the lenght etc, there nowhere else for the aerial to go, it will have to placed lower down again! that dam chimney can see everywhere too very strange
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