The latest QST includes a lead tech article on an automatic antenna switch
controller that uses a PIC and a lot of other parts on an expensive PC board to
switch 5 antennas either manually or in response to band data from various
transceivers. I must be missing something, because this seems like a LOT of
trouble for less capability than could be gotten from a $20 W9XT band decoder
card and a few added components. I know that there are some radios that don't
provide BCD band data, but that problem is usually dealt with by running a
computer program that provides the band data on an LPT port.
For this they burn 8 pages?
73, Pete N4ZR
The World HF Contest Station Database
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