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On reflection, I must now agree with you. I DID NOT in fact use a 9 foot whip, but it was a 8 foot long, 80M hamstick. Others who have tried the 9' whip/antenna tuner have also reported extremely poor performance on 80M. I will assume that the tuner, provides the requisite match to the whip, but the short length of the whip is too inefficient to to be useful. A proper, 8 foot 80M Hamstick ran circles around the tuner-fed 9 foot whip. Obviously the efficiency is far superior to the 9 foot whip, though bandwidth is next to nothing!

Now I wonder... how would an 80M Hamstick perform on 10M? Would the high VSWR at the antenna feed point (notwithstanding the tuner) compromise performance?

[QUOTE="VA3ES, post: 390261, member: 15532"] On reflection, I must now agree with you. I [B][U]DID NOT[/U][/B] in fact use a 9 foot whip, but it was a 8 foot long, 80M hamstick. Others who have tried the 9' whip/antenna tuner have also reported extremely poor performance on 80M. I will assume that the tuner, provides the requisite match to the whip, but the short length of the whip is too inefficient to to be useful. A proper, 8 foot 80M Hamstick ran circles around the tuner-fed 9 foot whip. Obviously the efficiency is far superior to the 9 foot whip, though bandwidth is next to nothing! Now I wonder... how would an 80M Hamstick perform on 10M? Would the high VSWR at the antenna feed point (notwithstanding the tuner) compromise performance? [/QUOTE]

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