Pardon my ignorance here, but I thought a link coupled tuner would be more of a bandpass than a high-pass filter. CLC T-network tuners (MFJ etc.) are the ones usually associated with becoming high-pass networks if misadjusted.
73, Al On Thu October 23 2014 12:55:15 pm Al Lorona wrote: > This doesn't apply in Vic's case here, but his situation reminds me of yet > another benefit of using a link-coupled tuner with balanced line feeding a > horizontal antenna in the center. > > A balanced link-coupled tuner turns out to be a high-pass filter, so while > you're tuning it up on a ham band, it's rejecting stuff in the AM broadcast > band. > > When tuned on 80 meters, I've measured the 1400 kHz rejection of my tuner > at about 40 dB. Forty dB makes a 50 kW signal sound like a 5 W signal. I > might be in bad shape if I didn't have this tuner. > > Another good thing to remember when planning an antenna installation. > > Al W6LX > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
