Topband: Tuner balun

[Ross Primrose]

On 1/6/10 10:19 PM, rick darwicki wrote:
> The tuner gives me a 1:1 SWR with a pretty broad bandwidth on my 160 inverted L ground plane with a DXE choke at the base. The problem I have is I cannot get the SWR below 1.5 - 2 from 1800 to 1810 and I want to try some RTTY.
>    
1.5-2? Who cares. Use it as it is. All this hype about needing a 1:1 SWR 
is complete BS...

73, Ross N4RP

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