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Re: [TenTec] Remoting TT auto tuner

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Remoting TT auto tuner
From: Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX <RMcGraw@Blomand.Net>
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:01:33 -0500
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Beware some of these are made using pieces of copper looking or brass 
looking / plated or painted junk.  Put them in the weather for 4 weeks and 
they will rust.  Beware of the rivets that hold them together, they rust too 
and we know what happens to two dis-similar metals.  Yikes!

73
Bob K4TAX



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Augie Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Remoting TT auto tuner


> On 7/31/05 3:29 PM, "denton" <denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
>
>> here is a link Ed..
>> http://thewireman.com/ground.html
>> Won't do you much good as they are out of production...
>> Wonder how hard it would be to homebrew something like this?
>
> I just did an internet search for "knife switch, double pole, double 
> throw"
> and found several possible suppliers. Some sources provide items for 
> science
> projects. Others are commercial suppliers to industrial users.
>
> Having not used any of these items I cannot make any claims about
> availability, quality, or suitability for antenna applications, but some 
> of
> the units look like they might do the trick.
>
> Gus Hansen / KB0YH
>
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