Hi Don. I think you misunderstood me, because with my suggestion you will have 3 SO-239 conectors, but you have the choise to use two of them for a ballanced feeder. That should give anybody a good flexibility.
Martin Storli LA8OKA Oslo, Norway ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm ________________________________ Fra: Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> Til: Martin Storli - LA8OKA <[email protected]> Kopi: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> Sendt: Torsdag, 8. desember 2011 14.46 Emne: Re: [Elecraft] Vedr: KAT500 update Martin, Actually, for my part the 3 SO-239 connectors offer the greatest flexibility. If a user uses open wire feeders, he likely already has a balun connected to those feeders. To move that balun inside the tuner makes no sense to me. In fact, I have an MFJ 962D tuner that I removed the internal balun just so I could connect a 3rd SO-239 connector. The baluns live at the center of my antennas or at the end of the ladder-line (which is not in the shack). 73, Don W3FPR On 12/8/2011 8:23 AM, Martin Storli - LA8OKA wrote: > Have you tought about the possibility to combine two of the SO-239 connectors > to form a balanced input. > With some relays it is possible to change the configuration in such a way > that say selecting Antenna 1 is SO-239 connector 1, selecting Antenna 2 is > SO-239 connector 2, selecting Antenna 3 is SO-239 connector 3, selecting > Antenna 4 is SO-239 connector 2 senter conductor and SO-239 connector 3 > senter conductor with a balun switched in to the circuit by some relais to > make the combined inputs of SO-239 connector 2 senter conductor and SO-239 connector 3 senter conductor a balanced input. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
