[Elecraft] high-power tuner

Bruce Beford bruce.beford at myfairpoint.net
Fri Feb 24 11:38:50 EST 2012


Thanks for the update on the KAT500 development, Wayne. In the meantime, I'm
using an MFJ-988 satisfactorily.

73,
Bruce, N1RX

> We're just making sure performance is as good as possible. (The stakes  
> are even higher in a QRO tuner.)

> The most recent prototype worked great, in general, but on 6 meters we  
> felt the  loss was a fraction of a dB too high. The PCB layout has  
> been changed to cut the RF path length and strays by a factor of two,  
> which should do the trick. We'll receive these boards in a week or so  
> and should have test results a week after that. This suggests that we  
> could have some field test units out in mid/late-March.

> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR




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