Wes

Can you describe your affected antennas?

73

Jim ab3cv

On Apr 21, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Wes Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:

A couple of points.

If you believe that an SWR of >3 necessarily degrades the efficiency of an 
antenna, you are simply wrong.

If the "tuner" components have to be derated to this extent then perhaps it 
should be called a line flattener rather than a tuner because a lot of guys are 
still going to need a tuner.



> On 4/21/2017 4:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> The KPA1500 tuner range is fine. If your antennas have >3:1 SWR you need
> to do some work outside. It will help your signal much more than the amp.
> Even when I operated the RTTY Roundup in January after an ice storm my
> antennas were within this amplifiers SWR range.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> from: Wes Stewartn7ws
> Fri Apr 21 01:18:59 EDT 2017
> ]
> Not enough full power tuner range.
> 

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