On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:17:28 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

If a tuner doesn't burst into flames with a 1 KW transmitter then it must be
resonably efficient. There must be a lot less than 1/2 S-unit loss in
signal strength.

Why all the concern about efficiency of tuners? Old wives' ?
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Reg.


Reg, you must be joking ........ 1/2 S unit isn't much when an S-unit
on most of those plastic boxes is around a few decibels, suppose we
are not talking about real S-units any more, then you would get too
many complaints of reporting 55 when everybody else give 59+. Those
modern American tuners (unlike those good old KW tuners) are not
really balanced, they use a balun on the output, and forget about
earth current

73

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