[ARC5] T-19 Real World Antenna Matching Problem

[J. Forster]

What do you mean by 'bypassing the tuner'? A direct connection to your
antenna's coax through the 200 pF cap?

-John

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> As reported earlier,  I’m getting around 25 to 30 watts out of my T-19
> into
> a dummy load on 80M using about 200 pF of series capacitance.
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> My 80M antenna is an HF-2V vertical, and I use a Heathkit SA-2060A tuner
> to
> get the SWR from 2.5:1 to under 1.3:1.
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> My plan was to set up the tuner for a good 50 ohm match, then connect the
> T-19 via the 200 pF capacitor.
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> Nada.  Zero power out (well, maybe a few watts) and the inductance tuning
> has no effect.
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> The T-19 should be seeing the same load from the tuner or the dummy load,
> but is acting completely different.
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> I’ve tried bypassing the tuner and that doesn’t work either.
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> Ideas?
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> Thanks
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>
>
> Mark K3MSB
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