Re: [Elecraft] Six-meter Antenna Tuner

2008-12-09 Thread W6SX Hank Garretson
Thank you to all who responded, both on and off list, to my request. First thing I'll try is my two commercial tuners with roller inductors. As suggested, they just might work. If not, I have found link-coupled designs in Bill Orr's 1967 Radio Handbook and the 1949 ARRL Radio Amateur's

Re: [Elecraft] Six-meter Antenna Tuner

2008-12-08 Thread Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy
Hank, My suggestion is use a classic link coupled balanced antenna tuner. If you cannot find one to buy the cost of building one for 6m at the 100w power level should not be very high. The third edition of 'The Radio Amateur's VHF Manual' (ARRL) contains a couple of examples for use at other

Re: [Elecraft] Six-meter Antenna Tuner

2008-12-08 Thread Greg - AB7R
Or just buile a resonant antenna for 6M. I found some simple plans for building a nice and sturdy 2- element moxon that has been working just great form me on 6M. It does not have to be up very high and you can turn it with a simple lightweight TV rotor. No tuner needed with it 50.0-52.0

[Elecraft] Six-meter Antenna Tuner

2008-12-07 Thread W6SX Hank Garretson
Since it is part of the K3 package, I would like to try six meters. My one and only antenna is an eighty-meter dipole 46 feet above ground fed with poly ladder-line. I'm looking for suggestions for a 100-watt coupler that will tune a balanced-feedline antenna at 50 MHz. I do not have the