[Elecraft] Balanced AT

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Doesn't an SGC fit this bill? I use an SG237 to tune a portable inverted V
fed by 300ohm (or thereabouts) ribbon - arms cut at 20m, on a 10m telescopic
pole and it tunes up on 80m - 10m a treat.

Am I missing something in your post?

On 7/9/07 01:23, "N2EY at aol.com" <N2EY at aol.com> sent:

> 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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