Not sure about the claims that  the  TS 2000 autotuner will only handle  3:1
mismatch.

The manual says 10:1 and any higher than 10:1 you get the swr warning in cw.
My autotuner will  handle 8 or 9 to 1 swr on a shortened 160 dipole when
tuning in a section  of the band away from the  resonant point.

For wide  mismatches, I use a Palstar manual tuner  which is  as big as a
small car and I think has lower   losses than the autotuner.

I have found some odd combinations of freq and antenna where the  autotuner
will not tune a 4:1 swr.  Adding / removing  some coax jumpers to the shack
end of the coax will usually find a  total coax  length that makes the
autotuner happy. Every situation is different, you just have to experiment.

73 Steve KW3A


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: Tuners


> It is nice to have a tuner with a wide range but remember when dealing
with
> big miss matches/high S W R you are loosing a lot of power in heat so it
is
> best if you can get the S W R down to begin with.  Ed K7UC
>
>
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