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Remember, just because an antenna can be tuned with an etuner doesn't
mean it will radiate well. I don't know what the swr limits are on the
480, I'm a little surprised it won't tune though. Where is the antenna
actually resonant and what is the swr there?
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On Sun, 3 May 2015, Matthew
Chao wrote:
> Hi, Folks. I have a TS480SAT which has a built-in auto tuner. Had
> one of my ham buddies come over and test the setup he and his buddies
> put up, an UltraLight Junior dipole strung between two trees and my
> house. We noticed that on 3.550MHZ, we were getting 4-1 SWr, egen
> though the antenna can go down that far - 80-10 meters. Above
> 3.8MHZ, the antenna tunes up.
>
> My question is: if I buy an external auto tuner, will I have more
> flexibility in getting a match. Are the the built-in tuners mor
> limited than the external ones? And what accessible tuner would you
> recommend if there is a difference?Thanks in advance.--Matt, N1IBB.
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