Thanks for posting this. I just sourced one of these on a local ham radio swap shop and plan to use it soon with my FT897 while house sitting. The L-network should be good for maximizing radiated RF and the light speaker wire that I'll use will be easy to set up and take down. 73
Nice compact setup there. I've got the exact same tuner which has featured in a couple of my videos. See "Portable Inverted V" & "Tuning A Barbed Wire Fence" (both in my "Antenna Abominations" playlist on my channel). I just wondered what you were using as an RF ground/counterpoise to tune the antenna against? As a side note, I recall seeing you appear on Chris' channel (Digital Analogue Ham) a while ago. I think you started your channel not long after me & I see that you are now approaching 150 subscribers. For me the first 100 subscribers was very slow but after that the numbers started to rise surprisingly quickly. I was on 100 subscribers back in November/December & in the last couple of months I've more than doubled that as I have now shot up to 260 subscribers! The point I'm trying to make is this:- Keep up the good work, keep posting videos & hopefully things will start to happen for your channel! 73. James.
Thank you for your comment! I am not using a counterpoise mainly because of my limited space. I have placed few ferrite clamps over the coaxial cable. I will definitely keep posting new videos, it is something I enjoy. I will have a look at your channel, too. All best, Ivo
@@hamradiotimeso I have one of these tuners and apparently I'm a moron I've been trying to use it on my dipole LOL. Now that I understand it is for a random wire antenna I may get somewhere lol awesome video by the way. So the counterpoise is not necessary at all? How is that so? Wouldn't a random wire only be one element of the antenna?. Therefore unbalanced? Thank you in advance for your response
i add a Tayloe LED circuit in my 16010s so that i can adjust for peak signal, then flip a switch, ptt a carrier and tune to dim the LED, then flip the switch to operate... very handy for visual tuning and for qrp rigs with no swr meter... cost is about US$5!
@@hamradiotime Well-well-well! :) That's why... I was really surprised why I can so perfectly understand your speech. So, U R Russian, like me also :) My best wishes! And subscription.
Hi Chris, this has only 1 Inductor and 1 variable Capacitor forming an L network. Others are more advanced and have Capacitor, Inductor and Capacitor forming a T or Pi network. Please see here - www.rfwireless-world.com/Terminology/L-network-vs-Pi-network-vs-T-network-antenna-tuner-types.html 73, M0IKO
