Just some notes for people who might want to hear my experiences with the T1-A Elecraft tuner i just got.
I first tried it with an approx. 100-ft longwire, no radials. The tuner would take the swr down all the way to 1.0 on 20m, 40m, but on 75m and 80m i would be left with "three bars" of swr on my FT-817, 2.5 on the T1. I then laid out a 66-ft radial. No improvement on 75m and 80m. In fact, no apparent change at all. So i added about 50 ft to the longwire, making it about 150 ft long (40 ft up in the trees). The swr problem got worse. Minimum swr was above 3.0 now, totally unusable. The ground radial did nothing to help. So i added ANOTHER 50 ft to the longwire, making it about 200 ft long. Now everything is fine on 20, 40, 80, and 160. However, the ground radial seems to do nothing to make things better or worse, at least as viewed at my radio. Now i have to find a longwire length of "less than 100 ft" that will tune up well on those bands (20, 40, 75, 80) for going portable. Orrin wn1z _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
