On Sep 12, 3:04 pm, "The Shadow" wrote:
A friend bought a G5RV Lite and has a Kenwood TS-480SAT, hoping the ATU in
the Kenwood would be able to tune all bands.
But only two bands would tune - 6m and 10m.

He then borrowed a G5RV Jr. Same results.

So question is does G5RV's in general require an external tuner with a wider
matching range than the typical internal ATU's in late model rigs??

The Shadow usually knows. (;-)

FWIW, I have an ICOM Pro II, an Ameritron ALS 600 and a Palstar AT-
AUTO Tuner feeding a True Talk 102' G5RV. Just for the heck of it, I
took the amp and Palstar out of line. The Pro II tuner tuned all bands
from 80 to 6 with no problem. You might want to consider adding 6' or
12' of coax to the transmission line. Sometime that will do the
trick. GL es 73, Tom K3MOV