[Elecraft] Remote Controlled Balanced Antenna Tuner

Jeff Burns [email protected]
Thu Aug 8 18:25:02 2002


On my lot the most practical antennas are simple multi-band wire designs.
Unfortunately, there seams to be no way to avoid a lengthy run of coax to
get
into the shack. With the KAT2 I get a good match to the system I have now,
but I
am dissipating a lot of energy in the coax. I also have problems with the
coax
radiating.  It seams what I need is a remote tuning unit.

The perfect tuner for my needs would be:
1.   Remote mountable.
2.   Auto Tuning.
3.   Balanced output.

One and Two are available in several commercial units, but a balanced output
is
rare. I recently found this unit
http://www.hamware.de/hardware/tuner402/at402-e.htm it is remote mounted and
has
balanced output, but does not auto tune. Has anyone seen this unit? What do
you
think?

Now if Elecraft had a product that had all three of these characteristics
that
would be nice!

Jeff Burns
AD9T