With all due respect, that's not a particularly valid distinction.
For example, I can have a non-resonant antenna fed by 100 feet of coax
(call it Coax A) that presents a reactive load to my transmitter. I can
then attach a separate 100 foot length of coax (call it Coax B) to the
"feedpoint" of the antenna and put some kind of reactive network at the
other end of Coax B that now results in a matched load to Coax A, and
therefore to my transmitter.
Or I can use a tuner in the shack to do EXACTLY the same thing ... 100
feet away from the antenna ... except that I just happen to be coupling
my power to the same length of coax and network that is providing the
matching.
There is zero electrical difference between the two situations I
describe above. There is zero difference between the transformation
that a tuner creates and that which a matching network does ... no
matter where the matching happens to be located. The ONLY difference is
that the less transmission line you have between your antenna and the
matching network the less overall system loss there will probably be.
That's it ... period. It is purely semantics what we decide to call the
various versions of what actually perform the exact same electrical
function ... there is no difference network-wise.
Dave AB7E
On 5/3/2014 9:17 AM, WA3GIN in King George, VA wrote:
Dave, with ipmost and all due respect those mentioned auto-tuners do
NOT adjust the resonance of the antenna... they are purely impedance
matching devices... some do understand the terminology and the physics
;-) You can dumb down the tech talk but that doesn't change the fact...K
73,
dave
wa3gin
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gilbert"
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Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Antenna Tuner"
They adjust the resonance of the >system<, and therefore are indeed
"tuners". It's all the same thing, except of course for the feedline
effects of SWR.
That being said, I have never understood why so many hams get hung up
on the semantics of the terminology instead of bothering to
understand what's really going on.
Dave AB7E
On 5/3/2014 5:56 AM, Marsh Stewart wrote:
Someone posted the following on the subject of antenna tuners: "They
aren't
adjusting the resonance of the antenna, so what are they tuning?"
When I adjust the capacitance and inductance of my "antenna tuner" my
antenna does not change length or height, and the length of the
feedline
does not change. Could it be because it is not really an "antenna
tuner" but
is actually an impedance matching network?
Marsh, KA5M
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