General Category => Antennas => Topic started by: gil on January 09, 2017, 01:11:27 PM
Title: The SotaBeams Valley Tuner on 80m.
Post by: gil on January 09, 2017, 01:11:27 PM
The SotaBeams Valley Tuner is the only one I know capable of tuning a half-wave wire on 80m. I bought 135ft of #534 from The Wireman, which is a 26AWG copper-clad steel wire with a breaking strength of 25lbs. The SotaBeams tuner is a simple transformer with an adjustable capacitor and a maximum power of 6W.
Hi Bob, it probably does, with the two sections in parallel...
Too bad they stopped selling it, there aren't many 80 end-fed tuners around. Maybe because it is not easy to get a good SWR with it, which I am starting to notice...
Gil.
Title: Re: The SotaBeams Valley Tuner on 80m.
Post by: Lamewolf on June 21, 2017, 09:06:09 AM