Mark,

Actually, the tuners don't do anything more than fake the radio into 
thinking that the SWR is low.  With a non-resonant antenna, you may be doing 
nothing more than transmitting on your antenna leads, which may account for 
all the RF floating around your shack and confusing your TW-1.

Steve

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From: "mark Torgerson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:37
Subject: Re: Question About TW 1 and readings


> Hi
>     Actually, as far as the antenna tuner goes, I have both the inboard =
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> tuner on the rig and a second out board tuner. I am a strong believer in =
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> tuners.
>     There are two reasons I would like to get the antenna close to=20
> resonance. First is for maximum power transference. The second is that I =
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> have read that one can reduce RFI by having a resonant antenna. So, I=20
> thought it would be fun to try.
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> God bless,
> Mark=20
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