Right, the best tuner depends on what you want to do. For balanced feed lines I use the Bliss Z Matchmaster. It uses two synchronized 30 mH roller inductors and a 1000 pf vac. variable. One of the th
Something to contemplate, in line with the comment about whether a kilobuck is appropriate for a high power tuner... The tuner's a pretty important part of the "system". If you've spent $3K on the ri
Jim Lux wrote: I don't know that I'd try to do something like modifying some ancient hamfest special (high quality as it may have originally been) with steppers or servo motors. Too many potential pr
steppers nature. But selsyns don't do multiple turn counting.. Maybe with some sort of gearing they would, (i.e. 1 turn of selsyn = many turns of cap or inductor). For a conventional 1/2 turn cap the
this looks like something in that direction, stumbled into it the other day: http://www.hfpower.com/new/03at.htm but there are no reviews on eham - anyone actually seen one? thanks! - jeff wk6i -- Je
I just chatted on RTTY with someone who'd done this. He used gearhead motors for driving the tuning components, with additional gearing from a BC-375 TU, for the cap I would think. And he used potent
Indeed, this is exactly what I was talking about... it's basically a CLC pi network. The LDG is very similar internally, except that they use a L network, and switch the C from one end to the other d
Author: "David L. Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:47:49 -0500
I agree The N4XM Xmatch is the best tuner especially for low band. This tuner tunes 160 no matter what. Plan on spending over $1K and love it. 73 Dave K4JRB kilobuck on an ___________________________
hi Jim and group - I finally got an answer back on pricing for that ACOM 03AT tuner - and I quote: Hello Jeff, thank you for your request. ... The 03AT is $ 9950.00 ... I guess I now know why there w
At 01:46 PM 12/2/2003 -0800, Jeff Stai WK6I wrote: hi Jim and group - I finally got an answer back on pricing for that ACOM 03AT tuner - and I quote: Hello Jeff, thank you for your request. ... The 0