[Elecraft] Remote Antenna Tuner
Randy Moore
[email protected]
Sun Sep 7 16:07:01 2003
>
> I wonder, is there anything fundamentally difficult in making
> an automatic balanced tuner, say an automatic version of the
> BLT-tuner or another Z-match tuner? - or is the problem that
> there aren't enough people interested so that noone has
> bothered to try?
>
> --
> 73,
> Sverre
As I recall, Wayne answered this question a long time ago. Seems like
there has to be about as many tunable components in each side of the
balanced tuner as there are in the KAT2, and the tuning algorithm has to
choose L's and C's from both sides. I think this means it costs a lot
more.
73,
Randy, KS4L