[Antennas] maxx-com tuners

[Hue Miller]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Boone" <CBoone at earthlink.net>
> 
> > Yes, that exactly what I and KE5O found decades ago...we had looked at one
> > at our employment for our HF emergency network system..We had been using
> > B&W's AC3-30 antenna but the loss below 10 MHz on signal level was enough 
> > to
> > consider something else. Bought one of these "tuners" and measured it with
> > test gear.....hmmmmm constant 50 ohm load across HF.....
> > When we finally broke it apart (well, we WERE curious) we found the
> > resistors...and nothing else!!!
> > NO Wonder it makes a good 50 ohm load across HF...the resistor does
> > that...what the dipole elements get is little or nothing!!
> >
> > What a rip........better to run a tuner and have a REAL signal!
> >
> > Chris
> > WB5ITT

Were those 8 resistors just in parallel, or was there something slightly more
complicated going on?
It seems to me, as i recall, the QST review kind of marked the beginning of
the end for Maxcom. -Hue Miller