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From: jhs%Mitre-Bedford@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: antenna tuners for receivers.
Message-ID: <13395@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Sep-84 12:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 11 12:25:00 1984
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In my experience, antenna tuners are generally a waste of time for receiving.
If the receiver is any good, the limiting factor is usually noise and
interference external to the receiver.  The tuner affects the desired signal
and the undesired interfence equally, and does nothing to help you
discriminate between them.

If your receiver is so poor that you are limited by received signal strength
and receiver front-end noise, you'd do better to get a preamp.  For most
receivers, this will be of significant value only on frequencies above about
15 MHz, but if you do a lot of listening up there, it might be worth it.

					73,
					John Sangster, W3IKG
					jhs at mitre-bedford