Don't use a tuner - you are after only one band, and you can easily
make an antenna that will work on that band without any tuner.
My RTTY contest exchanges are closer to 3 sec xmit, 5 sec rx than
what you describe.
Jerry W4UK
At 14:26 7/28/2006, Rick Mintz wrote:
>Hi Gang,
>
>I am looking for suggestions for a tuner that can handle RTTY
>contesting at 1500 watts on 40 meters (only). I have a Drake
>MN-2000, but I don't think that it can handle the average 5 second
>XMIT - 3 second RECV in a contesting environment.
>
>(Just finishing a Class E, 40 meter, solid state amp project for
>RTTY. It has so far produced 1850 watts into a Bird 2500 watt dummy
>load for 30 minutes continuous.)
>
>Any suggestions or ideas? Thanks.
>
>Rick W1TY/W2RTY
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