[Antennas] 4:1 or 1:4?

2002年1月06日 12:11:09 -0800

I can go you one better Steve! I built the "balanced tuner" of Rick 
Measures' design (It also uses the balun on the input side). Really took my 
time to gather the parts and do a real good job of building it. It was a 
thing of beauty. Vacuum variable, ganged rotary inductors, switched 
capacitor bank and special jumper arrangement for switching between high 
and low Z. I was as happy as a pig in mud.. Then thanks to people like Tom 
Rauch and Roy Lewallen I discovered it was all for not. Nuts!
So I've gone back to my Johnson Matchbox which I extend its range by 
switching in a "T" type tuner in tandem when needed. Sure there are more 
knobs to twist but, what the heck, real hams twist knobs <grin>
So while it may not be doing it wrong it is not doing the best way.
Hope my tail of woe helps.
73
Danny, K6MHE
At 11:51 AM 1/6/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks for this website reference, I admit I don't
>understand why it is correct but I'll go read up some
>more on it.
>>I guess I'll have to return my Northwest Division CW
>SS plaque now since I've been doing it all wrong with
>my homebrew tuners, baluns and antennas! :)
>>73, Steve N4SL Machias, WA CN88xa