I think the bottom line for this is you build if you get pleasure out of
building it. Buy it if you don't.
Sailors (blow boaters) get pleasure out of getting there, powerboaters
(stinkpotters) want to get there. As I'm a blow boat guy, it hurts to say
that when it comes to a four square controller, I'm driving a stinkpot.
73, Jerry K0TV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: "Joe Subich, K4IK" <k4ik@subich.com>; "'Jerry Muller'" <k0tv@arrl.net>;
"'towertalk'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 80m 4Square Comtek box
> > Actually, there is enough information in ON4UN's book for
> a
> > competent individual to build a hybrid style (quadrature)
> > phasing unit without much more than an MFJ-259B. Of
> course
> > a good scope and current probes would help if one wanted
> to
> > optimize the unit.
>
> By the time most people did all that, they would be better
> off just buying the Comtek. Retail parts aren't cheap or
> easy any longer.
>
>
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