end fed wires are the exception some times.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Auto A T U
> Hi.
>
> Begging your pardon, John, but you are wrong. Many antennas radiate but
> exhibit impedances far from 50 ohms. End fed random wires are just one
> example.
>
> If I could have my druthers, I'd have a coax fed resonant antenna for
> every
> band, but since I have restricted space, I put up what wire I can get in
> the air, and match it with the tuner to the radio. And, by the way, my
> non
> resonant wire antenna still out performs the resonant vertical on 80
> meters, proving that VSWR isn't everything.
>
> I will stick by my comments. The MFJ tuner does match antennas over a
> wider range than the LDG AT200Pro does, and comes much closer to the kind
> of matches one could obtain with a manual tuner. And, that is the real
> issue here. Most of the loads that I am working with would be well within
> the range of my old manual tuner.
>
> By the way, if you are going to run in the 100 watt range, and happen
> across an old Ten Tec 227 or 228 antenna tuner is decent shape, grab
> it. Those little tuners would load anything that could be loaded, and a
> few things that never should be loaded (like G5RVs on 160 meters!).. I
> still have one, and I've tried a lot of different tuners over the years
> and
> never found one that beat it!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 08:53 PM 5/31/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>If you have an antenna that's further off than the LDG tuners can handle,
>>or
>>even at their outer limits, at least with my 100pro LDG tuner, you're not
>>going to make it get out anyway because that has a huge range and all the
>>tuner does is fool the radio in to thinking the antenna's alright, the
>>antenna's still not and at the outer limits of 10-1 or what ever the LDG
>>tuners can handle out to, you're talking to yourself anyway.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:07 PM
>>Subject: Re: Auto A T U
>>
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > The LDG tuners are fine for coax fed systems, but forget it for
>> > anything
>> > else. They also do not have nearly the range of the MFJ tuners.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 10:31 AM 5/31/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>> >>Hello Terry Many thanks for this, I have tried a few of the LDG tuners
>> >>and
>> >>didn't get on with them at all these were the LDG Z100, LDG AT100PRO,
>> >>and
>> >>they just didn't do what I wanted. Many thanks anyway.
>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >>From: "Terry Robinson" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:43 AM
>> >>Subject: Re: Auto A T U
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Andy,
>> >> >
>> >> > I use the LDG Electronics AT 1000 to good effect.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers & 73,
>> >> >
>> >> > Terry, GM3WUX
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