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On 4/25/2014 3:06 PM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
As it is, many erroneously believe the antenna itself is being tuned.
REPLY:
Please don't get hung up over "tuning" vs "matching". The word "tune" in
English is widely used to mean adjusting something to reach a desired
condition. You use an antenna tuner to match impedances. You tune you
car's engine to match factory specs.
To many of us "antenna" means the whole system including feedline. In
that sense, "antenna tuner" is correct.
It's like tuning an amplifier. Again, you are "tuning" the output
network to match impedances. Everyone knows what it means to "tune an
amplifier".
Or would you rather say "Please standby while I match the output
impedance of the tube in my amplifier to my antenna system"?
73, Bill W6WRT
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