I had to design and build my own because I wanted to run up to a KW through
it. If I had to buy new matched roller inductors they alone would cost over
400 dollars.
I found most of what I needed in my junkbox or on Ebay but even so the parts
and materials alone were well over 300 dollars ... and I laid out and built
my own circuit board, bent my own aluminum, and made many component
compromises. Any commercially built balanced autotuner for a KW would be
*very* expensive. Many hundreds of man-hours later for construction and
software programming have finally got me what I wanted and I am very happy
with it. But I don't ever expect to see one on the market that is easily
affordable for most hams.
Don K7FJ
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However, it would be so nice to have a wide-range balanced autotuner. I
couldn't find one on the amateur market.
Though this works for me at the moment, it should be nice if someone
(Elecraft?) could come up with a stand alone truely balanced automatic
antenna tuner.
73,
Roelof Bakker, pa0rdt
Middelburg, Netherlands
JO11tm
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