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Re: [TowerTalk] Remote Tuner with ZS6BKW or OCF Antenna

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Remote Tuner with ZS6BKW or OCF Antenna
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:14:54 -0700
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On Wed,7/29/2015 9:39 AM, Phil Coley wrote:
Well, guess I'm wasting my time here trying to get some legitimate help.

Sorry you feel that way. Take a look at the pdf files about antennas at k9yc.com/publish.htm

Then there's the ARRL Handbook and the ARRL Antenna Book, which is what most of us learned from.

The antennas you've described are poor choices. I told you that. A tuner does not make them work better, remote or otherwise. All a tuner does is get the transmitter to put RF into the feedline. When the antenna is mismatched to the feedline, which it is on most bands, most of the power heats up the coax.

I'm 73 years old and have been through cancer too. I've got a nice antenna farm, thanks to a lot of help from my friends. That's what hams do -- we help each other.

There are several useful devices for getting wires high in trees without leaving the ground. Three of them are shown on slides 40-42 in

http://k9yc.com/LimitedSpaceAntennasPPT.pdf

And when we take the time to nurture a younger person in ham radio, we may be able to call on them for help with that physical stuff we can no longer do.

73, Jim K9YC
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