[Elecraft] OT: Remote antenna tuner

[Christian Friess]

I am sorry for any confusion. But I used that antenna on the Maldives Isl.
and from D4 (Cape Verde) with great success.

3200 + QSOs as D44TUK on CW and 1400 as D44TUQ (my YL) on RTTY was 
verifying that.

To answer your question now, I have seen that combination with the 4:1 
balun at one of our
competitors in the IARU Fieldday Contest. That was before K3 when the 
Kenwood TS 850S was the
first choice of serious contester.

I love that marvelously performing ANTENNA TUNER in my K3

73 de Chris, DL2MDU

Am 31.03.2019 um 20:58 schrieb Bob McGraw K4TAX:
> Chris:
>
> Out of curiosity, why did you choose to use a 4:1 balun with that 
> antenna/feed line configuration and not a 1:1 balun?
>
> I have a center fed wire fed with 450 ohm twin lead window line and I 
> use a 1:1 balun which I'm told is correct.
>
> 73
>
> Bob, K4TAX
>
>
>
> On 3/31/2019 1:51 PM, Christian Friess wrote:
>> On my holiday style operations I use a doublet with 300 Ohm twin lead 
>> cable.
>> The end of that 300 Ohm feeder is connected to a 4:1 BALUN
>> The BALUN is hooked direct to the K3S / K3
>> With the internal ATU I can use that antenna from 10 to 80 with 100 
>> Watts
>>
>> For details have a look to http://www.dl2mdu.de/antenna/
>>
>> 73 de Chris, DL2MDU
>>
>> Am 31.03.2019 um 18:44 schrieb W2xj:
>>> I would disagree. Most high power commercial operations use 
>>> non-resonant mismatched antennas. Typically there is either a tuner 
>>> at the antenna or open wire is used.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If an antenna is showing a VSVR of 3:1, something about the situation
>>>> is wrong, and most likely it's -not- the antenna.  Fix the problem 
>>>> … feed
>>>> the antenna power where it's resonant, assuming the antenna is 
>>>> actually
>>>> resonant on the amateur band of interest.  Expecting a tuner to 
>>>> compensate
>>>> for a problem external to an antenna is unreasonable, IMO
>>>>
>>>> 73!
>>>>
>>>> Ken - K0PP
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