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Old September 25th 07, 04:42 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
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Default Has anyone ever removed an antenna tuner from a radio and...

gwatts wrote:
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This may not seem like a "homebrew" question, but it is!

I have a Kenwood 440SAT which is failing...

Any suggestions?



How is the 440SAT failing? Any chance of repairing it or selling it as-is?

W8LNA


To which I should have added:
Taking the tuner out of the radio and making it work as a stand-alone
tuner might be interesting but more likely a huge effort. You should
first get the manuals and schematics for the radio and the stand alone
Kenwood tuner and see what ends up where between the built-in and
stand-alone versions. If you can fix the radio then you have a radio
with a built-in tuner. If you sell the radio as-is you might have
enough to buy a new auto-tuner like an LDG,
http://www.ldgelectronics.com/ If you actually can remove the tuner and
make it work as a stand-alone version you should write an article about it.