[Elecraft] OT: manual & automatic tuners
Thom LaCosta
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Sat Jan 11 16:28:00 2003
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, John McClain wrote:
> When I was in the Air Force in the early 60's, they trained me on
> aircraft radios, one of which was the ARC-65. I don't recall much
> about it other than it was round and looked something like a garbage
> can. It was used in the B-52 and it had its own built in automatic
> antenna tuner.
I remember one AirForce MARS Technical honcho that had one....he was
building a switch matrix to get it to play....I forgot how small the
frequency steps.
I was intrigued...but found the Drake twins a lot easoer to use (g).
Thom
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