When I was cutting stubs for a DXpedition I concluded that the length
included all wiring after the loading capacitor in my amplifier to the end
of the stub.
They worked great on two DXpeditions but I never could get them to work at
the home QTH.
de Paul, W8AEF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Stub tuning
> HI TT'ians
>
> I'm trying to get the stubs hooked up here. I cut some and they are right
> where I want them to be, using the MFJ tuner option.
>
> I cut the 20 meter one right at the meter and wanted to hook them up on
> the
> outside of my antenna switch. Going from the rig, there is about a 3 foot
> cable to the MFJ tuner/swr bridge. Going from there is about a 3 foot
> cable
> to the homebrew antenna switch.
>
> Problem is, when I move the stub from the bridge to the output of the
> antenna switch, I would think it would be too long and would have to cut
> some off. What is happening is that instead of the stub being on 14.100
> (where I want it), it moves up frequency to about 15.500 instead of going
> lower if frequency as they are now about 6' longer. Can't figure what is
> going on. There is no dip down below 14.100. Any ideas? 73
>
> Tom W7WHY
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