Sorry everyone. I was agreeing with Phil when I hit the send button too soon.
:-)
One of the locals has one of these puppies here. After I convinced him that the
design was based on a dummy load, he agreed to try a real antenna called a
dipole. He could not believe the improvement when he put up the dipole to
compare performance! 1-6 s units depending on the band!
Yes, dummy laods are broadband devices too!
I wonder what the "con" in "Max-con" stands for? Oh wait, that's the wrong
name... Sorry... ;-)
73's Mike
"Phil (VA3UX)" wrote:
>
> 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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