Good idea, Bob. That must be what he uses. Otherwise he would need a tuner.
But it would have to have the wires spread quite a ways apart; using 450 Ohm
window line for the radiator wouldn't cut it.
A sleeve dipole might also work, but I haven't tried that one yet.
I don't have the space here to put either of these up.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 1:18 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Eagle Tuner
A true folded dipole fed with open wire line and a 4:1 balun used as it is
supposed to be used.
Bob, K4TAX
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 3:35 PM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> Hmmm, I'm curious as to what kind of antenna you use on 75/80m?
> My antenna won't cover the entire 500 kHz without a tuner, and the
> Eagle's tuner works just fine for that.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John
> Farler
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 10:02 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Eagle Tuner
>
> The first thing I do when turning the Eagle on is to turn the internal
> tuner off!!
>
> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:54:51 -0700 From: Mike Stricker via TenTec
> <tentec@contesting.com> To: "tentec@contesting.com"
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Eagle AT slow? Message-ID:
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> Perhaps that is why Ten Tec has included it in their Eagle sale:-) And
> that is why having a built in antenna tuner adds no value to a radio,
> in my opinion.
>
> All kidding aside, the only AT that worked properly for as long as I
> owned it was the one in the
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