On 5/3/2012 12:32 PM, Dan Hearn wrote:
> ARRL tested some popular commercial antenna tuners and reported the
> results in QST as follows. They covered 160-10 and various loads. All were
> quite lossy on the low bands with low Z loads.
And there are people out there that didn't expect this? They are
running into low impedance loads which means high currents and high
losses. I believe the Palstar manual even mentions this. Also the
power handling capability drops off substantially with low Z loads
73
Roger (K8RI)
>
> February, 2003
> Product Reviews
> High Power Antenna Tuners:
> • AMERITRON ATR-30
> • MFJ-986
> • PALSTAR AT1500CV
> • TEN-TEC 238A
> • VECTRONICS HFT-1500
>
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