[TowerTalk] "Antenna Tuner"

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

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73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/4/2014 3:36 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 5/3/2014 9:17 AM, WA3GIN in King George, VA wrote:
>> Dave, with ipmost and all due respect those mentioned auto-tuners do 
>> NOT adjust the resonance of the antenna... they are purely impedance 
>> matching devices
>
> I share your concern about using the correct word(s) to describe what 
> is going on. That "tuner" is, indeed, an impedance matching 
> device/network, whose purpose is to present to the transmitter a load 
> with which it is "happy" to supply full power.
>
> Likewise, I reject nearly all uses of the words "balun" and "ground,"  
> because they have multiple meanings that nearly always lead to 
> confusion, and to hams doing really dumb things. I also object to the 
> phrase "ground loop," which is a totally false concept, and also 
> causes hams to do really dumb (and wrong) things to solve real world 
> problems.
>
> Call it what it is -- that "tuner" is an adjustable matching network," 
> at least a dozen different things are described by the word "balun," 
> and many uses of the word "ground" have nothing to do with a 
> connection to mother earth.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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