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"Meindert Sprang" wrote in
: Imagine what 2 meters of coax with a capacity of 200pF ( a "load" of about 200 ohms at 4 MHz) does to a high impedance (several kOhms at 4MHz) antenna connection: right... almost short circuit it to ground. NEVER use coax between the ATU and the antenna. That's just about as bad as neatly tywrapping the wire from the tuner to the bottom insulator on the backstay to the grounded backstay part UNDER the bottom insulator. Trying to get them to let that wire HANG away from everything to lower the capacitance to ground is like trying to get 5200 adhesive that's hardened out of a crack in the decking. They don't care what it does to the signal output, as long as it looks "neat and tidy". Larry W4CSC |
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