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Most radios you disable the tuner in the radio and hook that tuner up and it
doesn't bother with the internal tuner in the radio anymore. I don't know if
it will disable it automatically or not but disabling it, then hooking up
the external tuner is probably not a bad idea.
----- Original Message -----
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: ts480 question
> Hi, all.
>
> Well, I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my TS480, and just thought of
> a
> question I could use some help with.
>
> I'll do my best to verbalize this question in a way that hopefully will
> make
> sense.
>
> As you may recall, I'm going to use the TS480 as my main HF rig in our
> motor
> home. I have a Predator screw-driver-type antenna on the back of the
> motor
> home, and I use something called a Turbo-tuner, made by N2VZ Enterprise to
> tune the screw-driver for resonance on my chosen operating frequency.
>
> The Turbo-tuner is interfaced with the Ts480 via two cables--one is an
> RS232
> cable which goes to the front of the radio, and the other is a cable that
> connects to the AT port on the back of the rig.
>
> I am wondering if connecting the turbo-tuner in this way will
> automatically
> disable the auto-tuner in the TS480. Or, can the auto-tuner still be used
> to further "fine tune" the antenna once it has been tuned by the
> turbo-tuner.
>
> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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