On my sailboat I have no idea what lenth the backstay was. Where I found a point that the system wouldn't tune I felt the problem was inadequate counterpoise inside the boat. Upgrading the counterpoise solved all tuning problems.
What do you plan to use for a counterpoise?
JD
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, GUILLOT JC <jcjglt@...> wrote:
From: GUILLOT JC
Subject: [YaesuTuner] Re: AH3 vs FC40
To: YaesuTuner@...
Received: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 9:15 PM
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Thanks for your interesting post. I want to use my FT897D with a FC40 on board my sailboat and I read many proposals for the "good length" of the isolated backstay, I had thought to 12.5m but as you say it does not work I shall keep your suggested 9.6m length BUT what do you call a 0.4m pigtail ? Could you explain lease, I would like to have the system working well on all HF bands.
73s and best regards from FK8IH
> The wire antenna is 9.60m long, and tunes all freq but only upper
> part of 80m. To make it tune 80m I have to add a 0.4m pigtail to the
> antenna connection of the tuner, parallel to the antenna wire.
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