[Icom] IC-756 ProII carrier (how to get one?)

[Cletus W Whitaker]

de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania    2002.10.15

You're right, Adam.  I began using the AH-2 with a 1:1 balun and
a open wire line to a 90' dipole when the AH-2's first became
available.  I don't recommend 4:1 baluns.  Now I use three AH-4's
and one is in the mail.  One of the AH-2's got hit by lightening,
but the relays are available, (or were), from Radio Shack.  Back
then ICOM was designing for military and quasi-military users, and
their AH-2 appeared to be aimed at marine use.  I think the IC-735
was the first ham radio I saw them on, and that was after market.
One unadvertised goodie; the control leads for the capacitors and
inductances are brought on a connector.  They can be used to 
slave a bank of physically larger, but the same value, inductors
and capacitors.  First, tune the antenna with the AH-* tuner; then
transfer the values to the larger inductor/capacitor bank. This
method saves the switches in the larger tuner from being whacked
around during tuning.  Also, the AH-2 holds the configuration
as long as 13V power is on.  So, I use a seperate power supply.
I can tune the antenna with the IC-738 or the IC-756 ProII, then
switch the antenna coax over to a third radio set to the same 
frequency which does not have a auto-tune capability.
                    73   Clete