I am wondering why Ten Tec discontinued this item? Not a big seller?
Problems? I'd buy one in an instant as it sounds like the solution for
high power contesters....
Any comments Scott?
73 de Dave KB6JOX
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>From: Brian K. Short[SMTP:KE7GH@primenet.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 09, 1997 2:32 PM
>To: tentec@contesting.com
>Subject: [TenTec] #253 AutoTuner (summary)
>
>Marty, et. al.
>
>The TenTec #253 is a high power autotuner, capable of roughly full legal
>limit matching of a wide range of antennas.
>
>The tuner is a (reversible) L-Network with a roller inductor controlled
>by a stepper motor and vacuum relays to switch in/out. It is powered by
>12vdc and 2a max. It has 4 antenna inputs, the 4th of which can be set
>for coax, balanced, or end fed wire. The other 3 are coax only.
>
>The tuner tunes fairly quickly (30s max, <5s typical), but is somewhat
>dependent on inductor position.
>
>It can be controlled by Icom equipment automatically and others have
>built a small control box to select the various internal memories
>(each antenna selection has a memory for each band, but they can be
> used however with the custom switch, 32 memories).
>
>The firmware requires a little TLC in some unusual situations (perhaps
>present owners can amplify on this?).
>
>It can be manually controlled, also.
>
>New, this was an expensive piece of equipment and is presently difficult
>to find as it is out of production.
>
>All of the above is from others' comments as mine will not be here for
>a week or two. If you have further interest, contact me then.
>
>73, Brian ke7gh@primenet.com (now K7ON)
>
>>Hi Brian,
>>I was hoping to see some of the responses as a #253 is on my "want list"
>>for sometime in the future (after the ham budget recovers from the Omni VI
>>upgrade to "+" - hi!)
>>Could you please post a synopsis of what you learned? I expect other list
>>lurkers would like to see the info besides me...
>>Marty - W7LEJ
>
>
>Brian ke7gh@primenet.com >or< http://www.primenet.com/~ke7gh
>
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