[TenTec] Problem on 160 meters, Whats up?

[Scott Harwood]

Thanks, Dave.  I have the 2002 CD.

73,

Scott K4VWK

-----Original Message-----
>From: d.e.warnick at comcast.net
>Sent: Mar 20, 2009 9:16 AM
>To: Scott Harwood <scotthsr at earthlink.net>, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Problem on 160 meters, Whats up?
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>The article was in the April 2002 issue. When on the ARRL site, you can query for article name, or author or date. 
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>Dave 
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>WA3MKB 
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Scott Harwood" <scotthsr at earthlink.net> 
>To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:44:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Problem on 160 meters, Whats up? 
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>Thanks, Bob.  Actually, I should have pointed out in my original post the loop was designed for max performance on 80 meters and above.  I have a separate 160 meter antenna system.  I was just agreeing that the BT1500 does not perform well on small antennas on 160. 
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>Also, please advise what date Kirk Kleinschmidt's article appeared in QST.  I'd like to review it. 
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>Regards, 
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>Scott K4VWK   
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>-----Original Message----- 
>>From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> 
>>Sent: Mar 19, 2009 1:09 PM 
>>To: tentec at contesting.com 
>>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Problem on 160 meters, Whats up? 
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>>Hmmm interesting Scott; don't hold me to this but your loop may be 
>>just a wee bit too small. If you could add another 70 feet to it and 
>>get it up to 0.8 wave for 160 then maybe the palstar could handle it 
>>if the components have the range.  I have a friend who runs a BT1500 
>>on 160 at 1.5 kw but his loop is around 500 feet long.   I'm planning 
>>on getting one of those MFJ balanced RF amp meters too. 
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>>To the fellow with the AT5K, yes, the AT line of Palstars are 
>>unbalanced--read Kirk Kleinschmidt's QST article A Balanced Every Day 
>>Approach to All-Band Bliss on how all his problems with RFI etc went 
>>away when he switched from an unbalanced tuner to a true balanced one 
>>(two parallel variable Ls and one or two variable caps across them) 
>>for feeding his window line and loop.  The article chronicles his 
>>migration from a horiz. loop fed with coax and a SGC smart tuner and 
>>balun on the high Z side to window line, balanced tuner and a 1:1 unun 
>>on the low Z 50 ohm side. 
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>>The unbalanced tuner mfr's are crafty--they may say something like "my 
>>tuner will work with a balanced feedline" which is true depending on 
>>how you define "work" but they won't say "my tuner is balanced" which 
>>is what you need. 
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>>73 
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>>rob / k5uj 
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>><<<Not intending to be repetitive, but I also have a BT1500A and 
>>concur it is an 
>>excellent, well built tuner.  I use it with a 350 ft. horizontal loop fed with 
>>600 ohm parallel line.  Works fine on 80 throught 10 meters.  It does not work 
>>well on 160.  I also use a MFJ in-line balanced RF ammeter, and it sure is nice 
>>to see equal readings on each leg of the line when tuning the antenna with the 
>>BT1500A. 
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>>Scott K4VWK>>> 
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