[Elecraft] Re: ATU efficiency and the Elecraft T1

[Darrell Bellerive]

On August 8, 2005 09:48 am, wayne burdick wrote:
> But a balun should be helpful with antennas that present
> a high impedance to the tuner, for two reasons: (1) it steps the
> impedance down by a factor of 4, which may help if the tuner's range is
> limited;

Doesn't the impedance conversion degrade as the balun is used away from it's 
designed impedance. If I recall the BL1 was designed for a 200 ohm load. Will 
it still do a 4:1 conversion if the load is 1000 or 2000 ohms?

-- 
Darrell Bellerive
Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada