[Elecraft] Balanced AT

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Jim N2EY at aol.com> wrote on Friday, September 07, 2007 at 1:23 AM

> 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.

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Just remember that some relays are very noisy when operating e.g. those in 
the KAT100, so the weatherproof box must also act as a soundproof enclosure 
to avoid waking up any neighbours if you are on the low bands, for example, 
at some unholy hour.

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD