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Old October 24th 08, 08:05 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Automatic tuner range

JIMMIE wrote:
He found he could get it to tune up on all the HF bands but only
by changing the length of his feedline between the tuner and antenna.
I was thinking it may be nice to have a tuner that could control an
external relay to switch in/out custom networks for adapting it to
site specific operating conditons.


Why even have a tuner if you are going to switch the length
of the feedline?

http://www.w5dxp.com/notuner.htm

In my Arizona implementation of this antenna, I used
relays driven by a 80C51 microcontroller to achieve
an autotuner function.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com