dueling tuners is asking for a problem, I missed that part the first time,
you never ever run 2 antenna tuners together, you will never get the radio
happy that way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: 10 meters
> Mark,
>
> Is there any way to adjust the antenna length? This will work better
> and put more RF in the sky than messing around with dueling tuners.
> Your radio is probably folding back power to protect itself.
>
> Do some swr checks across the entire 10 meter band and see if there is a
> low spot anywhere in the band. Then you can see if you need to make
> it longer or shorter.
>
> 73, good luck,Steve KW3A
>
> On 11/5/2011 9:29 AM, Fred Adams wrote:
>> I have an IMAX 2000 with a standing wave of 1.3 on 10 meters and with my
>> LDG antenna tuner I can tune all the way up to 20 meters. The SWR is
>> pretty high on 20 meters but the LDG AT 1000 tunes it OK.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 8:41 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>
>> an 11 meter vertical shouldn't be anywhere near that high an SWR on 10
>> meters unless something's wrong with it, it might be close to 2.0 in the
>> lower portion of the band but depending on what it is, I've seen the old
>> antron99's and the like, solarcom A99, Imax2000, all the same antenna
>> there's another one too, carry a good SWR from the bottom of 12 meters
>> all the way to about 29 MHz before it went to 2.0 and an internal tuner
>> brought it down fine, same with the maco V58 and various others so I'd be
>> more inclined to think you have an antenna problem if the SWR's that
>> high.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "mark"<[log in to unmask]>
>> To:<[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>> I was excited to here both the Javanese and the station from
>> Panama.
>>> The only thing was that as hard as I tried, I couldn't contact anyone.
>>> I think that the SWR on my converted 11 meter vertical is somewhere
>>> between
>>> 4
>>> and 5. With the external antenna tuner it comes down to 3.4 and I
>>> clean up the rest with an the internal tuner on my radio. I am
>>> guessing that if I could get that SWR down below 2 that I would start
>> making contacts.
>>>
>>> God bless,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> God Loves you!
>>> You can visit my website at:
>>> http://christiantraditions.info
>>> Please visit my blog at:
>>> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>>> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 4:54 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: 10 meters
>>>
>>> Well, it has been years since I have copied J A signals on 10 meters =
>>> like it has been the last couple of weeks. 10 and 12 meters both, not
>>> = to mention 15 meters, has nearly been plugged with Japanese
>>> stations. = It sure doesn't take much, generally, to work the pacific
>>> on 10, that's = for sure.
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>> K0NX
>>
>>
>>
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