Here' s an intersting thought.
You have gone through the trouble to tune your linear into a dummy load and keep the interference to the QSO you would like to join to absolute minimum.
The antenna load is not 50 ohms and it's a 3:1 match, there is nothing you can do about the mismatch.
![Huh](http://amfone.net/Amforum/Smileys/classic/huh.gif)
What do you do now?
1.. re-tune the linear for this mismatch? And cause interference?
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2.. leave the tuning alone ?
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3..Turn the RF drive up from the exciter to equal the same power when the TX was
connected to the dummy??
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There may be more combinations of thougths, but I'm trying to avoid rewiring the station to get the 3:1 antenna (the 40M dipole on the Cushcrap tri-bander) to the K1JJ tuner. UNfortunately the upper-end of 40M is this bad mismatch. All other bands are flat where I set them when I built the yagi.
Thanks always.................dam it's cold up here in Pa!!!!!!!!
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THis would be considered bitter cold in Washington DC HA!
Fred