My experience is that auto tuners indicate TUNED when they attain the lowest
SWR regardless of the value. It could be 10:1 and if that is the best it
can do then it is TUNED. Although most would not consider this acceptable.
I understand that most think they should be able to attain a 1:1 under all
conditions. That is not generally attainable and is largely depending on
the range of the tuner vs. the applied load.
My solution is a 238 tuner after the amp. Using an antenna bridge to set it
up, it will match most any normal antenna that I can throw at it. I gave up
on narrow range auto tuners long ago.
73
Bob, K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack B. Friend" <jfriend31@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion2 auto tuner
> the O1 does the same thing if it cannot tune below 2:1. thus there is no
> match.
> jack ak7o
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "george" <goofyham@rochester.rr.com>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 12 March, 2009 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion2 auto tuner
>
>
>> The "tuned" stays on, on my O2 no matter what the SWR is.
>> If I press the tune button again it then goes off but I assume that means
> it
>> is in by-pass.
>> George W2YJ
>>
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