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LDG Z-817 autotuner

John Faivre
 

Has anyone tried to us the LDG Z-817 autotuner meant to be used with the FT-817 with the uBitx.?
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John Faivre?WA9SGD
 

I have used the KT-100 and a few of the other LDG's with bitx radios as well as other qrp rigs. You just need a way to give it power and hit the tune button on the front and then TX on CW.
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David

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I use my 817 with the uBitx. I press and hold the tune button until it goes into the tune mode and then I just say ¡°oooooooooooooo¡± into the microphone and watch it tune up. If you¡¯ve never tuned that particular antenna you may say ¡°oooooooooooo¡± until you almost run out of breath but it will tune. Once you tune around on a few bands, the memory tune is pretty quick. Never tried tuning with CW but I suspect it would work just the same.?
 

That is interesting on the kt100 ldg tuner. I was given a presumably working ldg yt100 and and can't get it to do a thing as far as semi auto tuning.Tried cw tx wit hthe fcn button held down. The red light flashes at about 4 hz but never get any other sounds of relays and the red light light never quits flashing.

Any ideas?
 

I use am old LDG Z-11 autotuner and it works great
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Lee - N9LO? "I Void Warranties"

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What radio do you have it hooked up to?
John Faivre
 

That won¡¯t help with what I want to do. I run normally my station on FT8 remotely using team viewer. I currently have a manual tuner and I want to be able to control the tuner using the cat breakout interface. I may just have to go with the Z11 as it will retune on an SWR threshold.
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John Faivre?WA9SGD
 

Dennis Zabawa and anyone
I tried the ldg yt100 hooked to a ubitx.
Wrote to LDG and one of their engineers said it wouldn't work, to my disappointment.

So when I see a thread that talks about using LDG auto tuners, I butt in. Still hoping that someone has a work around.
73
Dave
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Laurence Oberman
 

Hello
Any LDG that auto tunes remotely will work.
I had the older version in a sealed waterproof case that would autotune.
Just needed 13v so I had to run that with the coax.

They have this model now, but it 200+ dollars.

RT-100 Remote Tuner

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:53 AM d balfour <davesters@...> wrote:

Dennis Zabawa and anyone
I tried the ldg yt100 hooked to a ubitx.
Wrote to LDG and one of their engineers said it wouldn't work, to my disappointment.

So when I see a thread that talks about using LDG auto tuners, I butt in. Still hoping that someone has a work around.
73
Dave
k0mbt
 

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Hi?

I use the LDG Z11Pro with my ubitx.? It lives in the garden shed where the long wire antenna terminates and fed by coax under the lawn. It is powered by 8 Duracell AA batteries inside its case that lasts for about a year. Each setting is memorised for quick switching between bands.

Works a treat

Peter G4NJJ

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Sent: 24 March 2019 12:31
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Subject: Re: [BITX20] LDG Z-817 autotuner
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Hello
Any LDG that auto tunes remotely will work.
I had the older version in a sealed waterproof case that would autotune.
Just needed 13v so I had to run that with the coax.

They have this model now, but it 200+ dollars.

RT-100 Remote Tuner

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:53 AM d balfour <davesters@...> wrote:
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> Dennis Zabawa and anyone
> I tried the ldg yt100 hooked to a ubitx.
> Wrote to LDG and one of their engineers said it wouldn't work, to my disappointment.
>
> So when I see a thread that talks about using LDG auto tuners, I butt in. Still hoping that someone has a work around.
> 73
> Dave
> k0mbt
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>




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Dave the reason you were told the yt100 won¡¯t work with the uBITX is because the FT-857 and other radios listed talk directly to the tuner via the interface cables to activate the tune function.
The uBITX doesn¡¯t have that capability within the various software/firmware that is presently available. Now if you can write a Arduino sketch that can duplicate the tune function of the FT-857¡¯s then all you would need to make would be the interface cables between the uBITX and tuner.

Skip Davis, NC9O

On Mar 24, 2019, at 07:52, d balfour <davesters@...> wrote:

Dennis Zabawa and anyone
I tried the ldg yt100 hooked to a ubitx.
Wrote to LDG and one of their engineers said it wouldn't work, to my disappointment.

So when I see a thread that talks about using LDG auto tuners, I butt in. Still hoping that someone has a work around.
73
Dave
k0mbt
 

Thanks Skip That is what I figured when I initially got powered and couldn't make it go with the PTT. Figured it needed a signal on one of the input wires. but which wire and what flavor. Beyond the scope of plug and play solution. Certainly I am not against your solution. I had thought of wiring in a bank of switches to control the relays. but that seemed so inelegant.
Dave
 

My LDG Z-11 Pro is hooked up to my uBitx and it works great
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Lee - N9LO? "I Void Warranties"

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