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| Reviews Summary for B&W VS-300A Transmatch |
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Reviews: 2
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Average rating: 4.0/5
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MSRP: $(missing—add MSRP)
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Description: A 1.8MHz to 30MHz transmatch suitable for coax fed, balanced line or random wire antenna
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N3WXW
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Rating: 5/5
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Jul 2, 2008 19:29
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Good low power tuner
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have had my tuner for over 10 years. It has been flawless. I never run more than 120 watts thru it. I have used it with G5RV,LOOPS, ZEPS, OCFD and many vertical antennas. This tuner has always operated flawless for me. The meter could be better, but it functions.
73 de Ed
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G4IPZ
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Rating: 3/5
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Apr 21, 2008 09:03
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Good but no cigar!
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Time owned: 6 to 12 months
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I bought one of these via Ebay when, after a 15 year lay-off, I got back into ham radio. Somewhere in house moves my original "match anything" home-brew atu vanished so an atu was a must.
The unit looks great, very sleek and slender (10.5" x 3" x 7.5") but therein lies what to me is it's main drawback, of which more later.
It's rated at 300W PEP although there is a warning hidden away in the handbook that this may be too much if using the 1.9MHz band.
The claim is that it will match coax fed, balanced wire fed and randow wires. So far I have only used random wires and it's sort of OK if a bit of a bugger to tune.
On the back of the unit there is a series of connectors and terminal posts for a random wire, balanced line, coax 1 and coax 2, bypass position and TX in. There is also a ground post.
The front panel has a forward and reverse switch for the swr meter, an antenna select switch, and inductor select switch and variable capacitors for transmitter and antenna tuning.
Now we come to the drawbacks. Least first we have the power meter. This is a waste of space as it's far too small to be of any use and unless you're running more than 50 or so watts the reverse position displays nothing unless the match is way out. So this isn't much use for QRP.
Then we come to the selector switches. They are almost impossible to turn!
Partly because they are such tight switches but also because the compactness of the unit means the knobs are too close to each other to get a good purchase with dumpy and/or arthritic fingers.
Also it can be extremely sensitive on it's settings and you can't guarantee what you set it at one day will work the next.
Over all it's ok but nothing really to write home about.
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