[Icom] Antenna Balun/IC-756PRO

[Emil E. Hrivnak]

It's not a simple question to answer. As you change the length of the coax, 
the SWR doesn't change, but the impedance does. What the tuner can tune 
depends not just on SWR, but on the actual impedance you are trying to tune.

I have a 120 foot dipole fed with 37 feet of ladder line, a 4:1 balun, and 
then 40 feet of RG-8 into the shack. My Icom 746 tunes it just fine on all 
bands 160 through 10. So does my MFJ tuner.


Emil
N3EH


At 06:29 PM 10/16/2002, you wrote:
>I  have an 80 meter half wave dipole fed in the center with ladder line. I
>have been using an external antenna tuner for years to tune this antenna to
>all bands.
>
>If I use a BALUN and then coax into my IC-756PRO, does the internal tuner
>have the range to tune this antenna on all bands above 80 meters?
>
>73 de Jim, K5ROV...