My FT-817 does not have a built in tuner....I use a MFJ tuner and it does
not like the antenna on 160 meter at all !
Stephanie R. Koles WX3K
wx3k@arrl.net
http://www.qsl.net/wx3k
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr@contesting.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 9:41 PM
To: Stephanie WX3K
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Half slopers using a tower
At 06:47 PM 12/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I dont have a MFJ bridge to measure what the reactive component is.
>
>Im kinda experimenting with this idea at this point.
Sure, understood. It's tricky to figure out what to do with a half sloper.
Will your tuner in your transceiver handle it?
73, Pete N4ZR
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