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Auto tuners & verticals
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:13:38 -0500, John Ferrell
wrote: I am considering purchasing a remote auto tuner for my continuing tinkering with verticals. My current focus is on 80-160 meters with 33+ foot verticals. The auto tuners specs claim a max inductance of around 32 uh. The tuners computed with the ARRL program TLW20 require much larger values of inductance. Did you model the exact circuit of the SGC tuner? IIRC they use a l/pi-l configuration and an autotransformer. Will the Auto tuner (SGC-237) that claims to match any wire greater than 28 feet long really do it? The demands on the tuner will depend on how good a ground system you build. If you use a poor ground system, a side benefit of the poor efficiency is a subtantial amount of resistance in the feedpoint impedance, though you are probably still looking at thousands of ohms of capacitive reactance. If on the other hand you have an outstanding ground system, the very low value of feedpoint R becomes challenging for the tuner, and the efficiency you saved with the gound system might be lost in the tuner. Of course, the other option is to lengthen the vertical to raise the radiation resistance so that it is not totally swamped by ground system resistance. Back to you question, will you get a match? If the tuner lives up to its specification, you should... but you are looking at the world through your VSWR meter, and that is a very limited view! Owen -- |
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