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Re: [RTTY] Tuner for High Power RTTY

To: "Rick Mintz" <Rmintz@Rochester.rr.com>,"RTTY Mailing List" <RTTY@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Tuner for High Power RTTY
From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:56:29 +0000
List-post: <mailto:rtty@contesting.com>
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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