[ARC5] ATD/ARB on the air

[Neil]

Meir WF2U wrote:
>The antenna matching on the ATD is very tricky.
>I used a quick and dirty method: I connected the ATD output into the  
>antenna output of a manual MFJ antenna tuner, while the 50 ohm input  
>was used for the output.  Of course I pretuned the ATD/tuner into a 50  
>ohm dummy load.

I had often thought that this might work well for hi-impedance milsurplus
transmitters. Are the forward and reflected power readings on the meter
transposed?

73 de Neil ZL1ANM