Bartel
short answer is tuners only address part of the matter of mismatch, and they work best at the antenna feedpoint. A manual or auto tuner at your whips feed could help, but when placed at the rig might address only SWR that are moderately high, perhaps 3:1 decently, or maybe 5:1 if the tuner is really good. Once my elecraft tuner matched my vertical with its cable disconnected demonstrating a happy tuner may not provide useful radiation. If you can obtain a good QRP manual tuner try that first, but a very short antenna needs matching at its feedpoint.?
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