Skipp, I think the "magic" in that thing came from a swamping resistor or
swamping network across the terminals. I recall the main and only selling
feature of that thing was "low swr across any band with any length antenna"
or some such thing. This descibes a dummy load fairly well.
Phil
At 10:52 AM 11/19/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>Hello there,
>
>I'm looking for information regarding a wire antenna interface box, sold
>some years ago... the name I believe was Maxcon, Maxcom or similar.
>
>This was a "promise the world" wire antenna "tuner/interface" box which
>provided a broad match with low reflected power. Some length of
>wire was attached to the box to provide the hf and low vhf band
>operation. It was advertised as a restricted space antenna match -
>tuner.
>
>The ARRL did a write up on the device, complete with an Xray view of
>the potted internals. Many called it a fraud, but it did work to some
>extent. Would anyone be able to provide the month and year of that
>issue, any related information and/or a used unit.
>
>I remember viewing the xray'd internals as some toroids and resistors.
>
>This type of device might help with a project I have in mind, I'd like to
>
>research the device and build/buy one if possible. Is the Company
>still in business..? This device might provide some help driving a
>very dynamic complex load I have in a research project, similar to a
>tube element. I need minimal signal delivered to this project.
>
>Any help would be appreciated...
>thanks
>skipp
>
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