Question

[reds1964]

Hello All,

I have an older transmitter (Knight T-150A) that I hope to put on the air soon.  With these older rigs is it necessary to use an antenna tuner? According to the Knight manual the rig will match impedances ranging from 40-600 ohms. It would seem to me that one could use just about any kind of antenna and the rig would match it with no problem without the antenna tuner. If this is the case and I wanted to use a random wire antenna how would I feed it? The T-150 has a regular coax connector on the back of the rig. Should I just feed it with coax or should I still rout it through the antenna tuner? How should I tune it for minimum SWR? Any help would be appreciated.

Carl KA5KAB

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