[TenTec] Transmatches/Tuners/Etc.

[Chester Alderman]

At 02:19 PM 9/18/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Chester Alderman wrote:

>> 

>> At 07:11 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote:

>> >> It does not really "tune"the antenna

>> >

>> >This statement needs a comment. An antenner tuner does in fact tune

>> the

>> >antenna. Consider a typical dipole fed with open wire feeders (ladder

>> 

>> >line). The tuner does in fact bring the entire antenna system, dipole

>> 

>> >and feeder, into resonance which constitutes "tuning" the antenna.The

>> 

>> >next job of the tuner is to match the resulting impedance of the

>> tuned

>> >system to the transmitter.

>> >

>> >

>> >Steve N4LQ

>> >

>> AAAAhhhhhhhh....'CUSE ME?????????

>> 

>> Gosh....You just shot my 50 years of basic electronics learning right

>> in the butt!!! Now I iz going to have to go and throw my 20+ books on

>> antennas theory and transmission line theory right into the trash

>> can....Steve...Steve...did you REALLY mean to say this?

>> 

>> You mean to tell me that if I put up two equal length pieces of whar

>> (red neck for 'wire') up in the air, separated by a nice little

>> ceramic insulator, then connect a half wave length of transmission

>> line to those whars, that I can actually sit in my shack and toon that

>> physical device?? I know you dont mean that I can use my six element

>> 440Mhz yagi on 80 mtrs just by placing a tooner between the xmission

>> line and my rig, do you ?????

>> 

>> Chester Alderman

>> W4BQF -- Tom

>> chestert@pressroom.com

>> 

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>

>Sho....it jest won't work worth a hoot.

>

Ahhhhh....now I fullie understood...!!




Chester Alderman

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