Jim,
The antenna is a doublet up 50 feet inverted vee style.
It is feed with about 170 ish feet of 600 ohm open line.
None of the couplers can find a tuning solution
All other bands work fine
Sent from my iPad at Aultman hospital.
Mike wb8vge
> On Oct 14, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Jim GM <jim.gmforum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike, WB8VGE
>
> Hope your surgery goes well for you.
>
> I have gone and still going thru issues with my inverted L on 160M like
>
> your having.
>
>
> How long is your antenna? Is it a dipole or Folded dipole? I did not
> see on your post the answers to these questions.
>
>
> How high do you have it?
>
>
> Your going to find or have found that the tuner you have and other
> tuners will not work on 160M. They just cannot handle a near 50 ohm
> match or less no matter what they claim. All they want is your money.
>
> So you need to add additional matching out side the shack with coils
> and homemade capacitors made from coax cable, thats if you have a
> limited junk box like I do.
>
> Any ways the external matching will aid your tuner in the shack to take
> care of the rest.
>
> It will take some time and it is not a quick fix.
>
>
> --
> Jim K9TF
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