On Oct 31, 3:00*pm, K1TTT wrote:
On Oct 31, 7:49*pm, Art Unwin wrote:



Browsing thru E bay I came across a 1kw
antenna tuner for sale from Cyprus.Now in my younger days I got hold
of one of these and intended to salvage a Icom AH2 to somehow make it
remote since I use Icom radios. After all there are only three motors
that have to be driven! Now I am retired I pulled my old one from
storage after seeing the same on E bay. Question is are there any
kits, salvage ideas out there that would get me going on this long
lost project?
I have never used a external tuner but this seems like a realistic
project to play with.
Of course if there is a unit out there that I can salvage a controller
that is all the better. There are very good photos of this particular
tuner on E bay but like mine it has no controller! I suppose I could
feed a 10 watt signal to it and control the motors by hand to tune but
I do like the idea of automation.
Regards
Art

why would you need a tuner, isn't your super antenna flat from dc to
daylight?

I knew that was coming!
My antenna project is finished and active on the grass Now winter is
coming I need another project. I wanted the antenna to pan up and down
for best angle automatically but I am short on ideas. So seeing the
tuner on Ebay reminded me of a project that got away. The antenna has
only been tested down to top band as I am not equipted to go down
lower and the mfj only goes up to 170. I suppose I can take the tuner
to a hamfest but it has been a few years since I went to one. I am
using a window
wiper motor for the up and down so it would be nice to make that
automatic if more gain is available.