[Elecraft] Home made Sigma-GT5 & KRC2 or SGC?

Alan WB6ZQZ [email protected]
Sun Mar 21 13:19:08 2004


Well, it is nice to see that there are more balanced tuners out there than 
I knew about before, but they are not very affordable yet.

Perhaps Elecraft (or MFJ or LDG or SGC) can fix that.

-- Alan WB6ZQZ

From: Darrell Bellerive <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:00:14 -0800

Here's a couple commercial balanced tuners:
http://airwaterkinginc.purification.com/BlissZMatchMaster.htm
http://www.hamware.de/hardware/tuner402/at402-e.htm
http://www.hamware.de/hardware/tuner415/at415-e.htm

While I'm sure these are fine tuners, they're just not Elecraft's.

Darrell VE7CLA K2 #1973

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 07:42, Alan WB6ZQZ wrote:
 > Using an unbalanced tuner on a balanced antenna (such as a vertical dipole)
 > can be problematic. As others have pointed out, we really need a good
 > inherently balanced autotuner. In a weatherproof box with a remote control
 > panel. Whoever makes a good (low cost) one will sell a lot of product. 
MFJ has started
 > making a manual balanced tuner, but I'm not aware of any other commercial
 > balanced tuners at all! Elecraft, are you listening?
 >