[FARC] Help me debug my tuner kit?

[ROLAN.CLARK at comcast.net]

David, 

  

Rolan, w3fdk here and I would be  glad to help you. I  live  in Adamstown, about 6 miles south of  Frederick  and I could meet you somewhere and help you with it. 

  

I am retired but so I am kind of flexible but I am busy a couple of nights this week but we can work out something.  

  

A couple of questions, I looked at the manual and it is for end fed half wave antennas  with a one half wave  counterpoise 180 degrees from the direction of the  antenna which, for example, for    40 meters  would be a 63 ft wire tied to a tree west of you going to the red terminal  and the counter poise being a 63 ft wire on the  ground pointing east. and connected to the black terminal.  As the manual says, you could , say , put the wire over a limb 35 feet away from you, for example, and let the end hang down, that being the L configuration. 



Does that make sense, I have some trees here  in my yard we could play with your antenna , tuner and qrp rig .if you wish.  What band would you be interested in?  I would check with Curtis and see what antenna support structures are available. I sure hope  to drop by the site and see everyone  anyway but let me know if  i can help  check it out before this week end. 



73 de rolan w3fdk 







----- Original Message -----




From: "David Kindred" <david at retroscape.com> 
To: "Maryland ARC Frederick" <farc at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 9:48:11 PM 
Subject: [FARC] Help me debug my tuner kit? 

Hi, guys, 

I know you all are considerably smarter than I am, so I'd like to ask for 
help. I just assembled a Hendricks SLT+ QRP tuner 
(http://www.qrpkits.com/sltplus.html) and I must have done something wrong. 
I'm not able to get a match on the antennas I've tried, even though they've 
been cut per specification. The kit is fairly simple, which makes it all the 
more embarrassing that I haven't gotten it to work. 

Would any of you knowledgeable folks be willing to take a look at it and 
help me determine the problem? I was hoping to set up a QRP station for our 
field day. 

Much thanks and 73, 

--David, K3PO 

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