[TowerTalk] Re: Tuners and Matchers

[Didier Juges]

Another advantage is that the L network always gives you only one match, at 
the lowest Q, minimizing the stress on the tuner. With a Pi network, there 
are many possible matching combinations at varying Q's, so if you run high 
power, you can really stress your tuner without knowing.

73,
Didier KO4BB

At 07:37 PM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
> >One thing about the L-network is that it is either step-up or
> >step-down, not both.
>
>Yes, but an L-network is easily configurable, and if it is dedicated to a
>particular installation of a particular 160M wire, once you figure out which
>one you need, you hardwire it and you're done.  No messy switching.
>
>Mark, N5OT