While an Elecraft product would have appeal, the SGC230 fits that bill without batteries and has a long history of reliable operation in very severe environments such as on board ships where it's enveloped in corrosive stack gasses and doused with sea water regularly, baked under tropical suns and frozen with coats of polar ice.
Not much interface needed. IIRC, it tunes when commanded (or SWR exceeds a threshold) and remembers settings. You know it is working because the SWR on the coax is low at the rig, which means it's providing a 50 ohm non-reactive load at the antenna end. I worked with a lot of them on ships in the early 1990's where they were used primarily at the base of a 22 foot whip to load it up on the SSB marine distress frequency of 2182 kHz. At 100 watts, that was really pushing them hard because of the very short radiator for that frequency, but they worked FB in that service. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- I also think a tuner designed to be placed at the antenna feed point is a good idea. Power over the coax to the station would eliminate the need to lower the antenna to change batteries. For a real Elecraft tuner, it would communicate over the coax with a box in the station which would talk to Elecraft rigs and to produce the functionality of a on-board tuner or the KAT500. (A separate comm line would be OK, but I'm going for maximum elegance.) Cheers - Bill, AE6JV On 10/15/13 at 6:20 AM, aca...@wi.rr.com (Andrew Catanzaro) wrote: >I tried several years ago to convince Wayne of the utility of offering >a remote antenna tuner with the Elecraft name on it. >The T1 doesn't quite fill the bill. Something that's weather resistant >and that will run on internal batteries. 150 watt capability with >SWR's as high as 10:1. Option of coax or single post voltage output, >similar to the Icom AH-4. >Autosense high SWR's and tune functions. I'd buy one in a minute as I >enjoy Elecraft's quality and creative products. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
