Mine has so far. I don't know exactly what the impedance is that it "sees",
but I have used my AlphaDelta 40/75m dipole on 17m by using the amp as a
"tuner". I get a dip in the final and the loading C isn't maxed. Besides,
some "Legal Limit" tuners won't handle it either. Is it optimal? Heck no, but
it sure gets me on 17, and I'm not even using twin-lead (~100' or RG-213).
Kind of like running the old Viking II -- that thing would load up just about
anything. Ahhh, the good old days... "What's SWR??"
:-)
Joe, N3JI
doc <kd4e@verizon.net> wrote:
Is the impedance of of your antenna flat from 160-10M or does it
vary from below 50 Ohms to the hundreds or perhaps 1,000's of
Ohms?
The Tuner will handle that but will your plate tuning circuit?
> Tomm Aldridge wrote:
> Rather than put an antenna tuner in series with my amp, why not add a
> wide band RF impedance transformer to the output of the amp and go
> directly to the feedline? Seems that adding the plate tuner in series
> with the antenna tuner is just compounding losses. For example, I run
> 450 ohm ladder line to my (non-resonant) antenna. It is now fed by a
> balanced-balanced tuner (2 26uH motorized rollers and 2 500pF variables
> that can be moved from input to output as Z determines) that is fed by
> my solid state 50 ohm out rig. It seems to me that I could just design
> the plate tuning circuit to match 4k to 450 and add a 1:1 current mode
> BALUN to the output of that and be done rather than going from 4k to 50
> to BALUN to 450 as would be the case with the current 50 ohm output
> designs.
>
> Am I missing something here?
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