Lee
one other thing to keep in mind is how much power you
are going to be running... i used a tuner rated at 3KW
that had a couple of pieces vaporized at around
1500... i just heard a little zap and suddenly
everything went haywire... i calle dthe compant and
they said oh'yeah that happens from time to time...
they said send it back and they would fix it.... well
i still have it in its broken state since i figured i
wouldnt ever want to use it again... i wont mention
the company... but it is at the bottom of your list
;-)
Good Luck
Dan N8DCJ
--- Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net> wrote:
> Lee,
> Choice of a tuner depends mostly on what you're
> trying to tune ..
> ESPECIALLY on 160m.
> Remember that an antenna tuner serves only ONE
> purpose .. to 'match' the
> impedance at the shack-end of the feedline to the
> output impedance of
> your rig/amplifier.
> Another consideration is whether or not the feedline
> is balanced
> [open-wire/ladderline, etc] or unbalanced
> [coax/similar].
> In my [humble?] opinion, a separate tuner for each
> band of NEED would be
> best .. set it an forget it .. but I would NEVER use
> a tuner with a beam
> .. if the feedline impedance and the antenna
> feedpoint impedance are
> correctly matched, there is NO NEED for a tuner.
> Don
> N8DE
>
>
> Lee Buller wrote:
> > Hello Ladies and Gents....
> >
> > I have been researching tuners to determine which
> one to obtain. I have been getting mixed feelings
> about ... well ... just about all of them. So, I an
> asking for opinions about tuners. I currently have
> a Palstar and it is OK...but 160 meters suffers. I
> also have a homebrew tuner that works, but....I want
> something different. So to that end, what do people
> think of the following....(yes, I have read all the
> reviews I could find in QST and in Eham)
> >
> >
> > MT3000a
> > MT2000
> > TT238B
> > Nye-Viking
> > Heath 2040
> > Heath 2060A
> > Ameritron ATR-30
> > Ameritron ATR-20
> > MFJ ... well forget that
> >
> > Bonus Questions....
> >
> > It seems that the popular T-Match and the SPC
> Match is being challenged by the plain old L-Match
> (TT Model and others). When I was a kid so many
> years ago, the best tuner for the old long wire was
> the L-Match...a cap and a coil and a bunch of
> aligator clips all mounted on plywood. So, is the
> L-Match making a comeback in everyones thinking
> because depending on how you set it up, it can match
> from 5 ohms to 3000 ohms where the other are not
> that robust.
> >
> > Comments please
> >
> > Lee - k0WA
> >
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