"Howard Kowall" wrote in message
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yes i have built a dipole and it works good with the manual tuner
BUT now my new rig has a built in tuner and of course it wont tune it
the dipole i built was cut for 3.747mhz and works great without a tuner
but with the auto tuner it wont tune anyware but 80mtrs
is there a magic number for a dipole to make it tunable on 80 and 40
thanx
howard

I am the only one I know who is doing this, so it may be a risky practice:
tandem tuners.

I have an autotuner in my Kenwood TS-870 and I feed some antennas through an
MFJ tuner set on "BYPASS," usually. If I encounter a situation where the
internal autotuner balks, I flip the selector to the "TUNED" side and get it
close by quickly and casually peaking the received noise (or sigs). Then I
give the autotuner another crack at it and always seems to get a match. The
coax runs are all short and I seem to be getting away with it.

I am putting up more and better antennas ASAP, but there are still some
freqs I can't cover properly, so I cover them improperly :-)