Thx Leonard, nope that wasn¡¯t it. Found it tonight - wasn¡¯t the radio. My feed line was close to 60¡¯ - this is too close to the quarter wave dipole I had up (130¡¯) . I added 20¡¯ to the ladder line and then it would tune.
Doug
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On Jan 10, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Leonard K. Pennock <leonardpennock@...> wrote:
?Sure you don't have the antenna connections reversed on the tuner? Only having reflected power usually indicates they are reversed.
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Leonard K. Pennock (AD7AS)
On January 9, 2021 5:45:36 PM MST, Doug <Decadic@...> wrote:
Hi, I¡¯ve just set up a doublet with ladder line to a MFJ Versa III
Tuner to my 857D. I¡¯ve adjusted the tuner to the ¡°loudest sound¡±, about
S7 on 20M. Next step is to transmit on low power and fine tune.
Problem, no matter what I set the RF gain to I¡¯m only seeing 5-10W out
on the tuner meter and it¡¯s all reflected. On the radio when I
transmit, the SWR looks to be around 2-3, power under 50% (with radio
RFgain set to 100W).
I¡¯m receiving fine, I live in Ontario EN94np and picking up brothers in
the US clearly. Do you think there¡¯s a setting on the radio that I¡¯ve
missed to make it work with the external balanced line tuner (I¡®ve
played with menu item 085). Thanks in advance.
Doug
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