[Icom] Using AH-4 tuner mobile

[Brian Carling]

Are you saying that the AH4 doesn't tune well on the higher bands? Or that it just 
doesn't put out as good a signal?

I have been using mine with a temporary random wire and it did pretty decently on 
10m AM, CW, PSK31 and SSB so far!

Lots of easy contacts!

On 3 Oct 2002 at 9:09, Cletus W Whitaker wrote:

> de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania    2002.10.03
> 
> There's nothing unusual about the AH-2b except it's designed around a
> every substantial base insulator and mounting.  The antenna is just a
> long steel(?) tapered rod.  The AH-2
> 
> tuner and AH-2b antenna were introduced many years ago, and was a
> spin-out of ICOM sales to non-amateur users.  The Japanese language
> instruction sheets in the early days showed how to mount the antenna
> and tuner on water craft and military vehicles.  The AH-4 works best
> on the low bands if there is some distributed inductance along the
> length of the rod.  Like a wire-wound fiberglass rod.  You should try
> a Hustler with a 20-meter coil on 80, 20 and 40 meters with the AH-4. 
>     73    Clete
> 
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