[TenTec] TT and the rest of us...

[Richards]

Well... shoot, Jerry.    Now I AM confused.   I spoke with Paul
Hrivnak and company at Dayton last Friday and that is what they
told me to do... but now you are giving me somewhat different
instructions.   So... now I all conflicted...

Is this reason to get a beer?

Is there some way to reconcile the two methods?

If so... is THAT reason to get a beer?

Is it reason enough to get the TT tuner instead of the Palstar?  or to 
justify getting the Palstar auto tuner (which I think I want) because it 
may work more like the TT tuner, and also be automatic for "just" a few 
hundred more?


==========  Richards - K8JHR  ===============



Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:

> Not really. That condition is the one with the highest impedance
> transformation which is not necessarily the condition for a match. The
> impedance ratio is proportional to the ratio of the capacitor values
> providing the load is resistive. If the load is reactive, and most
> antennas are, then the reactance of the load directly affects the output
> capacitor setting by adding or subtracting from the value needed for the
> impedance transformation.
> 
> 
> 
> You get no choice of loaded Q in an L network, the Q is determined by
> the impedance ratio which gives it only one tuning condition.
> 
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