[Elecraft] Balanced AT

[John Huggins]

N2EY at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 9/6/07 7:42:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, W7KXB at msn.com 
>writes:
>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
>  
>
Here is one that seems to seek that market and might fit the bill...
  http://www.hamware.de/hardware/tuner502/descr-at502-e.pdf - seems 
semi-automatic though
 
John