Yes, well... At those prices, I suppose one could build a nice tuner from parts.
$1195.00 plus shipping for the 3500, I think the most expensive part would be a big edge wound roller inductor. I wonder if a tapped coil (copper tubing) would be good enough, I have seen some units that have a band switch for the inductor. I think you would have less problems with a big copper coil and a massive switch, and my heathkit tuner seems to want the same roller inductor setting (roughly) no matter what antenna, 121 on 80, 68 on 40 and it does not seem to change much from that. Or maybe I should just get a Johnson KW matchbox.... You can do balanced or unbalanced with them, right? Brett N2DTS > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevan A. White > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:10 PM > To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] antenna tuners... > > Take a look at Palstar. http://www.palstar.com Then take a look at > your bank account. :-) > > Best Regards, > Stevan A. White, W5SAW > SW Commercial Electronics > 928 South Crockett Street > Amarillo, Texas 79102 > Phone 806-681-7228 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You can tell more about a person by what he says about > others than you > can by what others say about him." -- Leo Aikman, Writer and > Newspaper > Editor > > > > Brett gazdzinski wrote: > > My heathkit antenna tuner has worn out I think, > > I built it 20 years ago or more, and I think its shot. > > > > All the silver plating has worn off the roller bar, which > > sometimes results in an open which blows > > the diodes out in the swr bridge. > > > > I took it apart and cleaned things up, but I think > > its time for a new tuner. > > I would also like to be able to bypass the tuner without > > moving coax, so the rigs with built in tuners can > > do their automatic thing. > > > > > > For unbalanced antenna's, what is available that can handle say > > 3000 watts pep? > > > > Some headroom is a good thing, no? > > > > I know better then to buy anything MFJ... > > > > Anything out there that holds up to AM? > > > > Brett > > N2DTS > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > AMRadio mailing list > > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
