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On Jan 11, 2:21 pm, "Ed Cregger" wrote:


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Yeah, it's a 3kw tuner when the SWR is 1:1. Lots of folks don't understand
that at all.

I don't mean to sound like a smart ass, but all of the techno-babble
(which
I too have memorized) such as current balun - voltage balun -
blah-blah-blah, does not help me do what I am trying to do. I've read all
of
that a thousand times at least, memorized it, passed tests on the
fundamentals, etc. It doesn't apply directly in this instance.

Wasn't meant to.. I was just informing Cecil about the balun
in the tuner...



On top of all of that, I want to be able to run about 600 watts output
from
my amplifiers (one upstairs/one downstairs). Any thoughts/ideas would be
appreciated. I have thought of going with a fan dipole, but that will
reduce
my operating bands by nearly one half.

Can't really think of anything offhand, unless maybe you built
the various ratio baluns, and then used a switch to select
which one you want. Palomar used to make some baluns
with some different than usual ratios, but I don't think they
are still in business, and I think those were only rated for
100w or so.
So you might have to make your own to handle power.
And even then I'm not sure how well it would pan out.
I've never tried doing anything like that, so your guess
would probably be as good as mine.
Myself, I run the fan dipoles, but I'm not really too
worried about working all bands. I tend to stick
on the low bands most of the time. I hardly ever get
on 20-10 anymore, unless there is a disturbance
in the force. :/
But I still can if I want. I can slap the tuner inline and
even with the loss, I can still operate fairly well
on the "no element" bands.
But I hang out on 160/80/40 most the time.
In the summer, just 80/40 pretty much..
40 in the day, 80/75 at night.. So it's not too
complicated for me.. :/ The no tune plug n play
ease will spoil you. And the system is efficient
on the designed bands.
Heck, I've got a tower and tri-bander for the high bands.
But.. I don't use em here..
The tower is in the garage, and the beam is up in the attic.
Shows you how excited I am about 20-10 m these
days.. :/
The only time I've ever used that rig is when I've
drug it out to a few field days.
And being I don't usually work those bands at FD, I still
really haven't used it much myself.
It won 10m phone one year I think.. I wasn't the
operator though.. I don't come out of my hole until it gets
dark and the low bands come alive.

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I may end up doing what you are doing - sort of. I too operate mostly 75 and
40 meters these days. I can put up a vertical for the higher bands. I
already have three commercial verticals (some old, one new), so I would
still have the capability to operate the higher HF bands, if I wanted to.

Thanks for letting me pick your brains. Much appreciated. All of you.

Ed, N2ECW