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Sounds reasonable, John.
73 de KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: ts480 question
> 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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