[TenTec] TUNING, MATCHING, TUNERS

[Ken Brown]

Scientists and engineers use words to describe reality as accurately as 
possible. Salesmen and politicians use words to try to make things seem 
more attractive than they really are. My preference is the science and 
engineering style. Yes, I read Kurt N. Sterba, it is my favorite column 
in Worldradio. Most of what Kurt says is really good and dispels 
inaccurate myths about antennas. He also has written many accurate 
descriptions of how an impedance matching device in that shack can tune 
the whole antenna and feedline system, without changing the SWR on the 
part of the feedline between the antenna and the matching device, and 
then ends the discussion by saying something like "therefore it tunes 
the antenna". That makes no sense to me.

If something is wrong, and many say it is right, it is still wrong. If 
something is right and many say it is wrong, it is still right.

DE N6KB