[Boatanchors] Use of 275 watt Johnson matchbox

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John King" <k5pgw at yahoo.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 7:39 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Use of 275 watt Johnson matchbox


>I normally use a Heath KW T  Match 2KW PEP rated tuner. It 
>seems to work well. I
>
> recently loaned that antenna matcher to my son, N5ASM to 
> use.
>
> Field Day is coming up and I plan to put a Heath Apache 
> and Mohawk rig on AM for
>
> the Club as one of several stations to be used. I have 
> built a 135 ft dipole
> with 450 open wire line to use with the Heath AM rig. I 
> have a 275 watt Johnson
> Matchbox to use with the open wire line  fed dipole.
>
> Since I am not accustomed to using the Johnson Matchbox, 
> balanced tuner, I would
>
> appreciate your input and suggestions for using the 
> Johnson Matchbox. Would I be
>
> better off borrowing my heath tuner back for field day or 
> using the Johnson?
>
> Thanks for reading and I would appreciate the benefit of 
> your actual knowledge
> and experience with the Johnson matchbox. 73, John, K5PGW
>
    I am pretty sure there is an instruction manual for this 
on BAMA. I have one of the tuners but am not using it at the 
moment. I think it will match pretty nearly anything hung on 
it. You need to have an SWR indicator if the tuner is one of 
the versions without one.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com