Thank you for all the input. Antennas are a fun thing to talk about and something every one seams to enjoy and building their own, like I do. I had many wires antennas in the last 46 years. I am still learning. One thing I have not done is get a computer program for my Apple Computer and an antenna analyzer with software for it. So I do every thing trial and error.
So far I found that the KX3 and KXPA100 internal tuner seams to be as good or better than the MFJ 989B that I had for many years. there were 2 tuners that were as good or better than this back in the day. Tuners have not changed much since then except for the introduction of auto tuners. I have a MFJ 998RT that I blew up on 160M with 500 watts MFJ replaced it for free. They shipped me a new one and I have not even opened the box. With that said, I have been searching for that antenna that will tune 160-6 meters and found out on this forum it does not exist. I never attempted to do this type of search. I now know why Wayne had stated that in Digest 123 Issue 6 about 3rd harmonics on the same coax. Jim Borwn comments are words of wisdom to stand by. I try to stay away from baluns as much as possible. Hairpin matches seams to be the best route, and I had proved that with tests on and spots on RBN. I have to go to work now and will be gone for a couple of days and I know I can add more to this. Took me a while to go through all the comments, and I had forgotten some of them. so my apologies for not mentioning them. Thank you for all your help. -- Jim K9TF ______________________________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
