[Elecraft] OT: Remote antenna tuner

[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.  

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> 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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