[1000mp] Tuner quirk

[Pete Smith]

At 10:25 AM 12/31/01 -0800, Kok Chen wrote:
>Here is my weird conjecture.
...
>If the reflected harmonic components are larger than the reflected
>signal of the fundamental, the tuner no longer has decent phase
>relationship of error (reflected fundamental) vs reference (forward
>fundamental) signal to drive the tuning algorithms.

You could maybe test this hypothesis.  Store the tuner settings for a given
frequency with the TVI filter not in line.  Put it in, and see what happens
to the SWR (being careful not to set the tuner off retuning again).  If the
original tuner settings yield a decent SWR, then something like Kok Chen
suggests may be to blame.

73, Pete N4ZR

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