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>I played around with putting wattmeters and swr meters before and after the
>tuner
>and in all sorts of different combinations. Results were that there were
>no clear
>results! Wattmeter on one side of tuner would show something different
>than the
>other side. Likewise the reflected power would be different on both sides
>which
>led me to my conclusion that was debated briefly on here previously as to
>whether
>a tuner really does anything at all. To demonstrate to yourself just put
>an swr
>meter AFTER the tuner and one before the tuner. There may not be any swr
>on the
>rig side meter before the tuner but it will probably all show up again on
>the
>other side of the tuner. SNIP
Maybe it is because your VSWT Meter is basically a 50 Ohm bridge/detector
whose reading is only accurate when in line with a 50 Ohm load. When using
a tuner to match an antenna to the transceiver the tuner will transform the
impedance seen by the transceiver to appear as a 50 Ohm load, but bear in
mind, that the impedance the tuner sees is still whatever the mismatched
antenna presents.
73
Jim WD4AIR
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