This is not a Ten-Tec specific topic, however.....
And, of course,
he/she needs to know how to change bands and load the antennas (which ought to be
resonant).
While there may be some reasons that it is "nice" or "convenient" to
have antennas resonant, it is absolutely not necessary. I does not even
make them work better in some instances, or significantly better in most
instances. Yes, the transmitter should have a load which is not too far
from being the right impedance and low reactance (50 ohms for most rigs
these days) This can be accomplished using a tuner, making the antenna
system (antenna, feedline and tuner) not necessarily the antenna by
itself, resonant. Or it can be accomplished by using a wideband antenna,
such as a discone or log periodic, that has such a broad flat impedance
curve that it can hardly be called "resonant" at all. A lossy antenna ar
a dummy load is another way, but of course not the best.
Ken N6KB
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