Very good on the report and I for one appreciate the work and effort into it.
My one question is, "are you able to tell if the RF output was "reduced" to satisfy the low SWR or did the RF output remain same?" There are situations where the tuner matches but the radio outputs at reduced power because the antenna is less than optimum. Ron wb1hga "CW, an esoteric experience" KD6JUI writes: The results using an Elecraft 4:1 balun were very good. For every band (looking at both the high and low ends of the broad bands) from 50 MHz down through 7 MHz (excluding 60m where I can't broadcast) the SWR was 1:1. On the high end of the 3 MHz band the SWR was between 1:1 and 1:2. I couldn't obtain a decent SWR on the low end of the 3 MHz band. I couldn't load on 160m. (snip) Without using a balun, I again obtained 1:1 SWRs from 50 MHz down through 14 MHz. On 10 MHz I found an SWR between 1:1 and 1:2. I couldn't load on the bands below 10 MHz. Looks like that 10-ft. vertical and the 13-ft. drag line work very well with the T1 and the balun. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
