Hi, butch. Antenna has an estimated 12-1 SWR at 3.600MHZ, but it
drops to 4-1 at 3.8MHZ. Supposed to work from 80-10 meters.--Matt, N1IBB.
At 10:36 AM 5/3/2015 -0700, you wrote:
>Remember, just because an antenna can be tuned with an etuner doesn't
>mean it will radiate well. I don't know what the swr limits are on the
>480, I'm a little surprised it won't tune though. Where is the antenna
>actually resonant and what is the swr there?
>73
>Butch
>WA0VJR
>Node 3148
>Wallace, ks.
>
>
>On Sun, 3 May 2015, Matthew
>Chao wrote:
>
> > Hi, Folks. I have a TS480SAT which has a built-in auto tuner. Had
> > one of my ham buddies come over and test the setup he and his buddies
> > put up, an UltraLight Junior dipole strung between two trees and my
> > house. We noticed that on 3.550MHZ, we were getting 4-1 SWr, egen
> > though the antenna can go down that far - 80-10 meters. Above
> > 3.8MHZ, the antenna tunes up.
> >
> > My question is: if I buy an external auto tuner, will I have more
> > flexibility in getting a match. Are the the built-in tuners mor
> > limited than the external ones? And what accessible tuner would you
> > recommend if there is a difference?Thanks in advance.--Matt, N1IBB.
> >
> >
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