Re: [TenTec] Tuner

[Mike Bryce <prosolar@sssnet.com>]

Just wondering. 

How bad is the swr at the low end you are trying to use? 

Mike wb8vge

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On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 7/8/2013 1:57 PM, Stuart Rohre wrote:
>> You are doing nothing wrong, the 3.8 MHz antenna is just too short to reach 
>> 3.5 MHz! 
> 
> While it has generally been my experience that antennas tend to tune more 
> easily a bit above resonance than below, there is no good reason that a 229 
> or 238 should not match a dipole that resonates on 3800 down to 3500.
> 
>