[Elecraft] KX1

Sun Sep 7 11:03:00 2003

I'm not sure I get this: "a balanced-balanced design with a balun on the 
rig side."  Counting the balun as part of the transmatch, that is really an 
unbalance-balanced design.  Why not just use the standard balanced tuner 
(output) with an unbalanced (typically series circuit) input to achieve the 
unbalanced-balanced transmatch using no extra balanced portion and no 
baluns.  Baluns are, simply put, things to be avoided, not to be added 
unnecessarily.

And yes, I'd love to see Elecraft produce a remote balanced transmatch. 
This has been top of my wish list for years.  There's the dream: open wire, 
balanced feed to the remote tuner at the feed point, coax to the K2.  Wow; 
that's the right way to do things.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Saturday, September 6, 2003 8:20 PM -0700 Darrell Bellerive 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I concur wholeheartedly. The antenna tuner needs to be at the feedpoint.
> I would also like to see a balanced-balanced design where the balun is
> on the rig side of the tuner.
>
> Darrell   VE7CLA   K2 #1973
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:55, Kurt Cramer wrote:
>> Mike VP8NO wrote : "However, I would be interested in a Aux-bus line
>> driver pair capable of communicating up a co-ax cable to a weather
>> proofed KAT-100, where it should be, at the far end of the co-ax."
>>
>> I agree! I've tried to word that feeling several times and get no
>> response! Why have a fully automatic tuner and then feed a peice of
>> co-ax with a high SWR up to the antenna? If we can't remote the ATU how
>> about remoting the front panel for mobile operation? That way you can
>> put the whole rig near the antenna.
>>
>> 73, Kurt
>> W7QHD (since 1951)
>> web page: http://W7QHD.tripod.com
>
>
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David A. Belsley
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