Keep up the good writing, Alex & Steve. You are both right about
building. Though I have a Drake MN75, I also have homebrew tuner
w/rotery inducor & bread slicers in a steel box. The main rig is
OmniVI+. This is a great Group.
> From owner-tentec@contesting.com Tue Jan 12 10:58:57 1999
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> From: "Alex Mendelsohn" <alex.ai2q@worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Steve Ellington N4LQ" <N4LQ@iglou.com>,
> "Michael O. Hyder" <N4NT@wireco.net>,
> "TenTec@Contesting.com" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: RE: [TenTec] 238 Tuner settings
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> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:50:27 -0500
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> N4LQ hits the nail on the proverbial head!
> The tuner/s I build and use are monster types (low loss) using the biggest
> coils and capacitors I can find at flea markets. One is mounted on an 11 x
> 17 x 5 inch steel chassis, using lots of steatite and porcelain feedthroughs
> and standoffs, a gigundo tape-wound roller coil, 0.5-inch spacing variable
> caps, and brass strip interconnects (available at hobby shops. Even if it
> arcs, there's not going to be any damage to it.
> Another uses huge plug-in coils that are a foot long and five inches in
> diameter. The split-stator cap is a foot long.
> Why don't hams build anything anymore? Antenna tuners are as easy to build
> as antennas! So are my Breune-type SWR bridges with big surplus glass piston
> sampling capacitors that won't arc over if the voltage goes high during
> off-tune condx.
> Get rid of that junk MFJ mentality guys. Have some fun scrounging and
> building QUALITY gear--in an area of ham radio that still lends itself
> admirably to homebrewing!
> Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Kennebunk, Maine .-.-.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tentec@contesting.com [mailto:owner-tentec@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Steve Ellington N4LQ
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 6:59 PM
> To: Michael O. Hyder; TenTec@Contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 238 Tuner settings
> >Yeah, Steve, 'if you're lookin' for trouble, you've come to the right
> place.
> You ain't seen nuttin yet. So far today I've read about:
> 1. A rig with a chirp
> 2. A tuner with a chip
> 3. A dial with a slip.
> 4. A dummy load with a drip.
> So how about someone buying one of those new Ameritron tuners for $600 and
> report back to us how it works. For the life of me, I cannot understand why
> something so simple and crude as a tuner could cost even $200! After all,
> it's just a couple of switches, a coil and a few capacitors. Is it a
> supply/demand thing?
> N4LQ
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Ariel, K4AAL
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