[Elecraft] Balanced AT

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/6/07 7:42:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, W7KXB at msn.com 
writes:


> it should be nice if someone 
> (Elecraft?) could come up with a stand alone truely balanced automatic 
> antenna tuner.
> 
> Good  Idea...I Think there is a good, but limited, market for such a tuner.  
> 
> 
> 

I think the market would be a lot more than "limited". Particularly if the 
tuner part could be remoted. If Elecraft made it, the market would be enormous, 
IMHO.

Imagine being able to mount a weatherproof box outside, run the balanced-line 
to it, then run coax into the shack - and the coax runs at very low SWR, so 
it can be pretty long without having much loss.

Seems to me that the basic principles used in the KAT2 and other relay-based 
ATUs could be adapted to a balanced tuner.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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