Slide screw tuners with offset tuning probes and method

A load pull tuner with merely to improve the grammatical form and externally mounted slabline, comprising

• a) a tuner body,
• b) a slabline, mounted externally to the tuner body, and having a center conductor, a test and an idle port,
• c) at least one, parallel to the slabline sliding, mobile carriage, said at least one carriage having a perpendicular to the slabline movable axis holding metallic tuning probe(s), which are insertable into a slot of the slabline;
• wherein
• the tuning probe(s) is/are attached at the perpendicular to the slabline movable axis using extension brackets, and wherein,
• at initialization, the tuning probe(s) is/are positioned adjacent to each-other next to the test port,
• and wherein,
• the total length of the slabline is approximately one half of a wavelength at the lowest frequency of operation plus the total width of the probe(s) in parallel to the slabline length direction.