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Using one of those tuners is very simple. (mostly)
Assuming you are using ladder or window line,(not only a good assumption, but a good idea) put up as much wire as high as you can. The "mostly" part is that you don't want the wires to be 1/4 wavelength total on any of the bands you are going to operate. I think the MFJ manuals point out some lengths you don't want to use. All this is to say that if you can put say 96 feet of wire in the air, that is what you put up. Such an antenna will work a treat on 40 and up, decently on 80 meters, and almost so-so on 160. You are ready. Get a couple buds, your slingshot or favorite method of launching fishing line into the air, and put up that dipole. Run the window line to the house, avoiding running it too near to metal objects, say keep it around 4 inches away. Connect it to the balanced line input on the tuner, go coax to the rig, and there you have it. Make sure you do the grounding thing correctly, but that's another subject. ====================== Whatever the length of the dipole ,ensure the the length of 1 half of the dipole + the length of the 'window feeder' is approx 1 quarter wavelength of 160m . This will result is a reasonably low impedance at the matching unit (tuner) , which that unit will happily accept. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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