Balanced Line Tuners
I don’t think you really want an Automatic tuner from Elecraft -- unless
they perhaps decide to venture into a new nitch in terms of a superb KW tuner
that works well with their and other radios.
First the reason that I say KW TransMatch is that you have to think in terms
of at least 100 Watt power levels of the K2100 and most other transmitters
of our day. If you are going to tune out what may well be a 10:1 or even
greater reactance at 100 Watts, that could be thousands of volts. The tuner
design
must accommodate this.
I would welcome seeing Elecraft or any manufacturer produce a software
driven ‘truly balanced tuner’. Nothing like this now exists on the market.
There
are and have been some such unbalanced tuners that will match an antenna in
the middle hundreds of Ohms. Even these won’t go beyond 600 or 800 Ohms, and
that is simply not enough for a well engineered station.
A software {or firmware} driven TransMatch that would tune from about one
half Ohm, to about 2000 Ohms, and handle the reactive voltages that may be
imposed at considerably higher power levels would be quite intriguing!
73! de John WA6BFH
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