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[AMPS] Review of Antenna Tuner from Dayton

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Subject: [AMPS] Review of Antenna Tuner from Dayton
From: na9d@speakeasy.net (Jon Ogden)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:47:41 -0500
on 6/19/01 5:32 PM, Alek Petkovic at vk6apk@eon.net.au wrote:

> One thing that I have found though, is that you also have to look at the
> spacing and insulation of the stator plates to frame. It is here where I
> have experienced the greatest problems when I built a tuner. The plate
> spacing was big but the spacing to frame was small and the frame had many
> sharp edges and corners where arcs easily occurred.

Good point.  This sucker is well built.  The caps are very large.  Again,
I've not seen a better built unit.  Of course, the Nye Viking unit may be
bigger and better, but it costs nearly $1000 too.

73,

Jon
NA9D

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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)

Member:  ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA

http://www.qsl.net/ke9na

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