[Elecraft] KX3 Serious Errors in the Manual

[Bill Turner]

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On 4/25/2014 3:06 PM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
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> As it is, many erroneously believe the antenna itself is being tuned. 

REPLY:

Please don't get hung up over "tuning" vs "matching". The word "tune" in 
English is widely used to mean adjusting something to reach a desired 
condition. You use an antenna tuner to match impedances. You tune you 
car's engine to match factory specs.

To many of us "antenna" means the whole system including feedline. In 
that sense, "antenna tuner" is correct.

It's like tuning an amplifier. Again, you are "tuning" the output 
network to match impedances. Everyone knows what it means to "tune an 
amplifier".

Or would you rather say "Please standby while I match the output 
impedance of the tube in my amplifier to my antenna system"?

73, Bill W6WRT