[TowerTalk] Maxcom Matcher info needed

[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 8/26/97 8:32 AM, Ed Jensen at k5ed@dzn.com wrote:

>Hi Gang,
>
>I picked up a Maxcom High Speed Antenna Matcher (per label) at a local 
>auction. I can't get it open and I can't find any ads for it in old QSTs.

I hope you didn't spend much on it.

>It has 2 terminals for the antenna and one SO239 connector for the coax.  No
>power connection.
>
>Anybody know anything about this unit?

Yes. QST did a "review" several years ago. They published an X-ray 
photograph, as they couldn't get the unit open, either.

Turns out, this thing is just a big dummy load. There's nothing but a 
huge resistor and some other unrelated components inside.

Maxcomm sold this fraud for over $250 a pop. QST refused to take their 
ads. 73 and perhaps CQ ran their ads for some time.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901


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