John Canfield said:
Roger that. We're in the last 2 or 3 weeks of a 4 month long house remodeling and addition project, my radio room has doubled in size
. It's a good bit away from the new master bedroom so I'm looking forward to getting my station back on the air.
One of the campsite
employees here saw me tossing a line up a tree in my lot, and suddenly he took on the role of park
manager, ordering me to desist. So I presently live w/ a MFJ-16010 L network transmatch tuning abt 15 feet of inverted V antenna alongside the southeast corner of the RV. I
had 33 feet of 22 ga wire going north on the ground as the counterpoise, until the lawn workers tore it to shreds (even
under the front of my RV!). No prob, I replaced it with
16 ga. solid copper ground wire! The L network sits outside in a food storage container on the park table/bench, protected from rain. Tuned for 40 w/ a bridge at the antenna base, reconnect coax, and use Icom 703?s
built in auto tuner to compensate for any remaining swr (so far just masking a 2:1 reading
w/o radios auto tuner on, but it?s all so close to the ground anyway, so what?s really the point, right?) In the process, however, I soon discovered that my use of an MFJ T network on the
radios end was pointless: Not
only because of the Icom?s internal auto tuner being able to do
that job, but when I wanted to hear a more distant AM MW station on occasion, it was appearently beyond anything that the external T network could be of any benefit (quite the opposite)... The T network was probably doing little more than
adding loss on MW reception (I could tell by pulling the T network on the station end
out of the loop! Things on MW suddenly got
louder, even when connected to an
untuned antenna outside!) 73