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Old 12-07-2012, 07:51 AM   #3
N3LYT
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Wow some thing sounds wrong with the turns counter. Doesn't it bottom out in the setup procedure? Mine at the very bottom (highest freq) reads 0 turns and goes up as the antenna rises. Maybe it is different with the (Lil Tarheel) but it should start at 0. You absolutely have to have a choke on your control wires or it will not tune, the bigger the better. The treads are 20 to the inch on the motor drive so 20 turns will give you a 1 inch rise in the height and the 40 meters to 10 meter turns are way too close. I use no matching coil on mine and it tunes from 10 to 80 meters with a 56" stinger. The manual is pretty vague but power on +6 should get you started then step your way through and zero the counter. I set mine with a Bird AT 100 antenna tuner but a good SWR meter should work.
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