[Elecraft] Remote Controlled Balanced Antenna Tuner

Thu Aug 8 19:27:05 2002

Jeff
It sounds like you are missing a bet.  Using 450 ohm feedline, you would
have less transmission line losses on all bands.  Also, you could then use
the K2's ATU right in the shack and avoid the cost of an external ATU.
Here I use two 55 ft dipoles with 450 ohm feeders, and use the K2 ATU to
match on whatever band I want to operate.
73, Bob N6WG

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jeff Burns
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:17 PM
To: elecraft_list
Subject: [Elecraft] Remote Controlled Balanced Antenna Tuner

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

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