Anthony,

I'm sure that's the case, but I wonder how many antennas actually
fall within that range.  Mine does on some parts of the bands, but on
some bands it doesn't even come close.  That's why I still use my
external tuner, which has a couple of motor-driven tuning
capacitors.  Until I got the 480, I never knew I had high SWR
anywhere because the tuner always took care of it.

Steve

On Thursday 8/4/05 22:58 Anthony Vece wrote:
>Hi Steve;
>
>I understand from KENWOOD themselves that there tuners are not made
>to tune anything above 1.3/1 match.
>
>73 De Anthony w2ajv
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>On 2 Aug 2005, at 10:41, Steve Dresser wrote:
>
> > Butch,
> >
> > To me, the 200-watt unit makes sense only if you run it mobile all
> > the time.  I had the same thoughts about the tuner, although I almost
> > never use it because I've found that my Icom ATS500 works much better
> > than the 480's internal tuner.  In fact, there are some bands where I
> > can't even tune up with the internal tuner, but the external tuner
> > brings the SWR right down to 1/1.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Monday 8/1/05 18:53 Butch Bussen wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of the 480.  If the voltage between both pulgs isn't
> >> within a
> >> very small ammount, the rig won't transmit.  Personally, I can't
> >> see the
> >> 200 watt version, you're talking an increase of 3 db or a half an
> >> s unit.
> >> I'd much rather have the tuner.
> >> 73s
> >> Butch Bussen
> >> wa0vjr
> >