[TenTec] Ten Tec 238A settings?

[Rob Atkinson]

As someone else wrote, take a look at the Rich Measures article.
http://www.somis.org/bbat.html

The price of the Palstar isn't too bad for what you get; I think it's around
the price of a new 238B.   But you can make one--it's not too difficult to
do, especially if you don't need a lot of power handling capability.   I
don't think the MFJ parallel wire feedline tuner is what I consider a
genuine balanced tuner.  I took a look at the schematic of it when it came
out and I recall not liking what I saw, but can't recall the details.  Don't
hold me to this but I think it involved 2 or 3 caps and a switched tap
inductor in some scheme that might transform the balanced Z to 50 ohms, but
wasn't balanced itself.  OTOH, it might work FB for ur power levels.  BTW,
MFJ may have come out with better models since then.  I would consider the
homebrew route myself.

73

rob / k5uj