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Good thinking, congrats, I have that antenna, and I love it. Once you find the settings for each band, write them down, I call it my cheat sheet, makes tuning next time much easier.
73 Bob
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From: Doug <Decadic@...>
Date: 1/10/21 9:16 PM (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Re: [FT-857] Using a Balanced Line Tuner
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
> On Jan 10, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Leonard K. Pennock <leonardpennock@...> wrote:
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> ?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)
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>> 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).
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>> 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
>> VE3DGY
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