Not sure about the claims that the TS 2000 autotuner will only handle 3:1
mismatch.
The manual says 10:1 and any higher than 10:1 you get the swr warning in cw.
My autotuner will handle 8 or 9 to 1 swr on a shortened 160 dipole when
tuning in a section of the band away from the resonant point.
For wide mismatches, I use a Palstar manual tuner which is as big as a
small car and I think has lower losses than the autotuner.
I have found some odd combinations of freq and antenna where the autotuner
will not tune a 4:1 swr. Adding / removing some coax jumpers to the shack
end of the coax will usually find a total coax length that makes the
autotuner happy. Every situation is different, you just have to experiment.
73 Steve KW3A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Tuners
> It is nice to have a tuner with a wide range but remember when dealing
with
> big miss matches/high S W R you are loosing a lot of power in heat so it
is
> best if you can get the S W R down to begin with. Ed K7UC
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