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.
What do you do now?
1.. re-tune the linear for this mismatch? And cause interference?
2.. leave the tuning alone ?
3..Turn the RF drive up from the exciter to equal the same power when the TX was
connected to the dummy??
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!!!!!!!!
THis would be considered bitter cold in Washington DC HA!
Fred