I know it's common place to use tuners on HF these days. They certainly come in handy for matching antennas cut for other frequency ranges than the one that may be desired at the present. For example, transmitting on the low end of 80 meters when your dipole was cut for the high end of 75 meters. There is also the G5RV antenna which works pretty well on HF but even better with a tuner. But using tuners on VHF, even 6 meters is not a good idea. You can get away with coax losses on HF but at VHF they become significant. Yes, I know there is a company or maybe two selling "6 meter tuners" but they're a bad idea. They do make some Mighty Fine Junk if you don't have high expectations. Six meter antennas are not very large. Many people can at least put up a 3 element yagi that works over the whole SSB phone band and then some. Add some good RG-8 type coax (or whatever they're called now) and you've got a viable antenna system. That would be my minimum antenna system for 6, especially since you've got a fine rig like the TR-6 to go with it. You don't want to put the cheapest set of tires on a fine sports car. There are other more significant problems with the components in the MN-4 which are totally wrong for 6 meter work. The capacitors, the tapped coil, the band switch, etc...You're talking major butchery here. Another thing to consider is the wattmeter movement which is really the same basic type as the W-4 and designed for HF. But you could probably put a WV-4 wattmeter in there. But it's YOUR gear to do as you like.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JR Linden K7PUR Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:54 PM To: Drake List Subject: [drakelist] MN-4 on 6 mtrs I would like to put my MN-4 on 6 meters to mate with the TR-6. Has anyone done it? Can it be done? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tnx.......JR K7PUR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
