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Title: Simple 5 band antenna and L network tuner
Post by: swxx on August 30, 2017, 10:51:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGkC321Cwl8
Title: Re: Simple 5 band antenna and L network tuner
Post by: Sparks on August 30, 2017, 11:36:42 PM
The transceiver used in there is a Hendricks PFR-3A, and I wanted to know more about it:

First: Interesting background on the PFR-3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5K3g0BffI0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5K3g0BffI0)

These are about the PFR-3A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkxpij9zPHM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkxpij9zPHM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JYYZ9Ywng (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JYYZ9Ywng)

Seems the current version is Hendricks PFR-3B, which I found here:
http://www.qrpkits.com/pfr3.html (http://www.qrpkits.com/pfr3.html)
Title: Re: Simple 5 band antenna and L network tuner
Post by: swxx on August 31, 2017, 10:49:42 AM
Thanks Sparks. If you haven't seen it you may find this post (http://radiopreppers.com/index.php/topic,1338.0.html) comparing pros and cons of the various rigs interesting.