[TowerTalk] Antenna Tuner

[Djordan (personal)]

Haha, yes, jump rope a great body tuner upper?  

I just switched on the TV and gosh DISH Networks greeted me with this screen shot:

Welcome to DISH TUNER 1.  What..I didn't know their was an auto-satellite antenna matching system in the Hopper Box....;-).   

I'm so confused because the remote control only allows me to change the channels ;-/ 

Oops, end of test the wife took the remote control back - Happy Moms Day... The Moms get to keep the auto-tuner remote all day log!

73
Dave
Wa3gin

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> On May 4, 2014, at 12:25 AM, "Wilson" <infomet at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> WOW, always brings out a lot of opinions, expert and otherwise.
> Did you ever play with a jumprope?
> You tie one end to a tree and apply very small circular input to the other, with your hand, to get the great half wave response that people can run into and jump.
> What if you were quite tall, with long arms.  Can you imagine standing in the middle of the rope and grabbing it as it goes around.
> Sure you could, but you’d have to jump too.
> Now what if you cut the rope?  You wouldn’t have to jump and the part tied to the tree would keep going just as before.
> Isn’t this like changing between voltage and current nodes?
> Sure, it doesn’t say much about reactance, but it does give some insight to matching excitation to antenna characteristics.
> Wires don’t know if they are resonant or not.  If you can put power into them (by matching their impedance to your transmitter), they will radiate.
> Foot 100 doesn’t know about anything except what it’s being given by foot 99.
> Their usefulness depends upon all the factors we know:  length, height, orientation, surroundings (including ground characteristics), etc.
> Someone just called “hot peppers”, or was it “hot potato”?  Guess I better get jumping!
> 73,
> WL
> W4BOH
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