[TenTec] Tuner

Mike Bryce prosolar at sssnet.com
Mon Jul 8 18:31:36 EDT 2013


Just wondering. 

How bad is the swr at the low end you are trying to use? 

Mike wb8vge

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On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 7/8/2013 1:57 PM, Stuart Rohre wrote:
>> You are doing nothing wrong, the 3.8 MHz antenna is just too short to reach 3.5 MHz! 
> 
> While it has generally been my experience that antennas tend to tune more easily a bit above resonance than below, there is no good reason that a 229 or 238 should not match a dipole that resonates on 3800 down to 3500.
> 
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