The tuner simply matches whatever to the radio, in other words, it makes 
the radio happy.  You will always lose a little through a tuner.  It 
really doesn't make the antenna radiate any better.  You can hook your 
radio up to a dummy load and it is perfectly happy, but you won't 
receive or transmit very far. HTH.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, David Pearson 
wrote:

> Hello List:
>
> A previous post suggested that an antenna tuner "fooled"an antenna into
> thinking that the antenna was resonant on a particular band/frequency(I
> think that he was referring to verticals).
>
> My question concerns multi-band wire horizonntals(a 10-40 half-size g5rv for
> example).
>
> In this situation, is an antenna tuner performing the same function as it
> did with the vertical("fooling" the feed system into believing it's matched,
> or does it perform some other positives(better power transfer, etc.)?
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
>
>
> David S. Pearson-wa4dsp
>
>
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