I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong about "tuning" antennas. I prefer to the explanation by old Kurt N Sterba about antennas and tuners. Mike N6ZW > On 09/30/2024 1:23 PM PDT Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > I've never understood what "The antenna tuner does not tune the antenna" even > means. The reason people say this might stem from the mistaken belief that > the resonant half-wave dipole is somehow the best because of its length. But > there's nothing about a half-wave dipole that makes it radiate any better > than a wire of some other length. > > There are a lot of hams out there that are dead-set against using a tuner of > any kind, feeling that the naked antenna must work without any assistance > from the outside world. I suppose there's a kind of purist thinking behind > that notion. I suppose there could also be a fear of losses in a tuner (which > are usually unfounded, by the way). I have often found that more > consequential losses elsewhere in the system are overlooked by the same > tuner-averse hams. > > If a person has a fundamental problem with antenna tuners, they must also > object to what the output matching network of the final amplifier in their > transmitter does to bring the transmitter's output impedance to 50 ohms. > Would they say, "My transmitter's output matching network doesn't tune the > power transistors"? I mean, what does that even mean? Without that network, > nothing would work. > > This mantra that we hear over and over-- 'my antenna tuner does not tune my > antenna'-- doesn't say anything important. We may as well say, "My sunglasses > do not tune the sun," or "My salt shaker does not tune my mashed potatoes." > Is the point they're making that a capacitor down in the shack acts > differently than a capacitor up at the antenna? If so, they're wrong. > > > Al W6LX/4 > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n...@comcast.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
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