[TenTec] Palstar tuner

[Tony]

Jeff,
Find a Dentron Super Super Tuner and be "done" with tuner problems.  The SST 
can be found for a fair price and it is built like a BATTLESHIP.
73
Tony, W4FOA
PS: Oh, BTW I have a TenTEc 238 too (in my closet)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff" <n3jbh at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Palstar tuner


I have a palstar tuner and as a tuner think it is great. BUT !!! mine the 
model AT1KP has a really crappy balun. The balun fried at 600 watts and is 
grossly under sized. To make matters worse the used a 4:1 balun i this 
model. I contacted Paul about the fried balun and got a silly reply that the 
tuner will only match 200 ohm loads on the balanced lugs. "what" Here is the 
email replies from Paul.
t is 200 ohms in balanced mode only as the balun
is a 4:1 current balun
You also said that you were in balanced
mode
The other specs are for the coax mode
Regards Paul
AND
The Z that the balun is looking into must be out of
the range of the
200 ohms that is the output Z of the balun
itself
This is an antenna problem not a balun
issue
R Paul

Again love the tuner Just needs some serious improvement's in the balun 
area. Jeff N3JBH






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