[Antennas] It LOOKS good anyway

Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:06:20 -0800 (PST)

D,
In my defense I will say the see-thru Lexan transmatch
is very cool LOOKING and gets the most comments of
anything in the shack. When knobs are twisted, you can
see both the twister and the twistee in action 
including the tiny gears on the roller inductor turns
counter.
OOOohhh, and that gleaming balun, yessir, you can see
that, too. It looks very cool. Crap.
S.
--- Dan Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can go you one better Steve! I built the "balanced
> tuner" of Rick 
> Measures' design (It also uses the balun on the
> input side). Really took my 
> time to gather the parts and do a real good job of
> building it. It was a 
> thing of beauty. Vacuum variable, ganged rotary
> inductors, switched 
> capacitor bank and special jumper arrangement for
> switching between high 
> and low Z. I was as happy as a pig in mud.. Then
> thanks to people like Tom 
> Rauch and Roy Lewallen I discovered it was all for
> not. Nuts!
>> So I've gone back to my Johnson Matchbox which I
> extend its range by 
> switching in a "T" type tuner in tandem when needed.
> Sure there are more 
> knobs to twist but, what the heck, real hams twist
> knobs <grin>
>> So while it may not be doing it wrong it is not
> doing the best way.
>> Hope my tail of woe helps.
>> 73
> Danny, K6MHE
>>> At 11:51 AM 1/6/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Thanks for this website reference, I admit I don't
> >understand why it is correct but I'll go read up
> some
> >more on it.
> >
> >I guess I'll have to return my Northwest Division
> CW
> >SS plaque now since I've been doing it all wrong
> with
> >my homebrew tuners, baluns and antennas! :)
> >
> >73, Steve N4SL Machias, WA CN88xa
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