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November 3rd 10, 02:48 AM
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Remote tuner
On Nov 2, 8:17*pm, Jim Lux wrote:
Art Unwin wrote: On Nov 1, 7:59 pm, Jim Lux wrote: Art Unwin wrote: On Nov 1, 12:34 pm, you wrote: In article , *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 It isn't the tuner hardware that is going to be a problem, as much as designing the tuning algorithm that drives the hardware. Mark Johnson did a very good job, reverse engineering the stuff that Bill Shield brought west from Motorola Military back in the 70's for the SEA Autotuners. SGC copied the SEA Firmware & Design enbank, for their stuff. The best stuff, was the stuff Collins did for their Military Autotuners. Starting from scratch is going to be a BIG design project. |
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