[Elecraft] Question about forthcoming KAT500

[Rick Bates]

Alan,

Isn't that true of most tuners, that higher impedance is tolerated (matched)
better than low impedance?  

If so, that easily explains why a 4:1 (or worse, a 9:1) balun is a bad
choice on a multiband antenna.  Such devices might lower the impedance too
much on any given band.  It might also explain why they're more lossy.

73 es HNY,
Rick WA6NHC

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bloom

On some bands it barely
made 10 ohms at the low end but it would typically do much better than
that at other phase angles.  For example, it would match much greater
than 250 ohms resistive on most bands.