Tuesday, March 20, 2007

 
Took some time and characterized the G5RV with the Ten Tec 238B tuner.

Got 80-15m to under 1.5:1 SWR. Most everything down to 1.0:1.

Recorded the results in Excel so I don't have to futz too much redoing them.

Really doesn't like 10m for some reason. IIRC the tuner isn't as good there. No worries.

Following their instructions it was occasionally iffy about which LowZ/HiZ side I wound up on. Sometimes it just wouldn't "tune down" on the side that their algorithm said it should be, so I tried the other side and got a better match.

Go figure.

Next step... One of the amps. I'm tempted to start with the SB-201 first because it seems a bit "friendlier." I think it is the blue paint vs black paint. How's that for hard science? Chuckle.

Or it could be that the SB-201 is already on the same level of the house as the shack and the AL-80A requires schlepping?

Nah...

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