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Reviews For: LDG RT-600

Category: Antenna Tuners/Matching Networks

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Review Summary For : LDG RT-600
Reviews: 21MSRP: 449.95
Description:
The RT-600 is a 600 watt PEP coax in / coax out remote autotuner designed to be placed near the feedpoint of the antenna. DC powered over the coax by the RC-600 control unit (included).
Product is not in production
More Info: http://www.ldgelectronics.com/
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00213.4
N4UM Rating: 2015-03-03
A stealthy solution Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Received my new RT-600 this afternoon from AES and had it up and working in short order. It feeds a 23 foot flagpole with a 50 foot top loading wire in an inverted L configuration. I have 100 feet of good quality buried coax feeding the antenna. Power for the tuner is supplied thru the coax by a small controller (RC-600) sitting on the hamshack desk. The controller is included with the RT-600. 12 vdc is required for the RC-600 controller.

My antenna has 50 radials, each about 20 feet long, beneath it. The RT-600 was attached to the flagpole by means of heavy duty cable ties since the clamps supplied by LDG were too small to go around the pole. The RT-600 quickly tuned the little inverted L to a satisfactory SWR on all bands from 80 thru 6 meters. It could not find a decent match on 160 but that was rectified by temporarily inserting a 32 uH loading coil in series at the base of the pole when going on 160.

At present I'm only running 100 watts since my shack is temporarily torn up and my ALS-600 is sitting out in my garage. I can't comment on the RT-600's power handling capabilities but I have no reason not to think that the RT-600 can't handle the 500 watts I normally run when using my amp.

The LDG-RT-600 appears to fill the bill for hams living in antenna restricted communities and others who want to stay “under the radar” with stealthy antennas and still run more than 100 watts.

I will do another review in the future if I have any additional information to include.