I emailed the company and requested the price (950). The
site doesn't have any pictures of the guts, etc. but the
thing really looks good and the price seems to be in line
with low volume, special high end tuners. Maybe it'll be at
Dayton.
Chuck, KE9UW
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:03:01 -0800
>From: "Michael Tope" <W4EF@dellroy.com>
>Subject: [TenTec] Ruggedized 229 Tuner
>To: "Ten-Tec" <tentec@contesting.com>
>
>Ever since I built my Ten-Tec 4229 tuner kit (and
subsequently
>fried the balun and ceramic wafer switch), I have always
wanted
>to build a ruggedized version of this tuner. I think the
229/4229
>uses an excellent choice for electrical topology, but it
got
>implemented a little on the light side. In any case, looks
like
>someone may have beaten me to the punch with this
>commercial offering:
>
>http://efmcommunications.com/index.html
>
>It looks rugged on the outside, but I wonder how solid the
>insides are built?
>
>73 de Mike, W4EF................................
>
>
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