Tom,

John is exactly right.  The meter needs to be between the radio and the 
tuner so you can tell when the radio is happy with the lowest swr.  That's 
the point of the tuner in the first place.  it's confusing, I know, but 
that's the way it should be.  That way, when you use the tones, you can tune 
for minimum when you're in the swr position.  I imagine you know this but, 
when you first transmit and you haven't tuned your tuner yet and the swr 
might be quite high because of that, the tone won't be continuous but will 
pulse.  As you tune, and the swr comes down, the tone will settle into a 
steady tone that will be quite easy to minimize with further tuning.  As 
with most of these things, the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. 
What I do sometimes when I think I'm getting close to 1 to 1 is cut the 
transmitted signal and note the difference in tones between signal and no 
signal.  When there is no difference, your there.  Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: using TW1 correctly with TW1


>    John:
>
> I need to be sure I'm understanding you correctly here:
>
> When using the external tuner, are you saying you go from radio, to TW1, 
> to
> tuner, to antenna?
>
> I would have thought it'd be the other way around:
>
> from radio, to tuner, to TW1, to antenna.
>
> Help me out with an explanation.
>
> Also, the MFJ 901B that I have has no bby-pass on it, so I'm assuming then
> that if I use the auto-tuner in the TS480, I'd have to disconnect the
> outboard tuner, unless the circuit for the out-board tuner is somehow
> bypassed in the TS480 when using the internal auto-tuner.
>
> Anyone else with thoughts on these issues?
>
> 73 from Tom behler:  KB8TYJ
>
>
> I would have thought you
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: using TW1 correctly with TW1
>
>
>> put the meter between the tuner and the radio. Bypass the radio tuner to
>> use
>> the external one, and if you use the internal one in the radio, you have
>> to
>> either put the external tuner in the bypass position if it's like mine 
>> and
>> has one, or disconnect it. Most tuners have a way to bypass it though, I
>> know my MFJ 941C does.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:53 AM
>> Subject: using TW1 correctly with TW1
>>
>>
>>> Hi, again, folks.
>>>
>>> Just a few more questions here, this time when using the TW1 with the
>>> TS480
>>> and an outboard tuner:
>>>
>>> The out-board tuner I have is one of the older MFJ 901B versatuners.
>>>
>>> 1.  I assume that you connect the outboard tuner to the rig, and then go
>>> from the tuner to the TW1.  Is that correct?
>>>
>>> 2.  When using the outboard tuner, I would assume you'd want to be very
>>> sure
>>> to turn off the auto-tuner in the TS480, correct?
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> 3.  When using the auto-tuner in the Ts480, would I have to disconnect
>>> the
>>> outboard tuner, or is that automatically bypassed when I switch the
>>> TS480's
>>> internal auto-tuner on?
>>>
>>> Thanks as always, guys;  I appreciate your patience with all of my
>>> questions.
>>>
>>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>>