Topband: Tuner balun

[John Bastin]

On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:27:06, Ross Primrose wrote:

> 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...

Unless you're using a solid-state amplifier where the protection circuit shuts it down when the reflected power goes above about 45 watts...

73,


John K8AJS
bastinj at gmail.com