The CG-3000 is a very affordable automatic tuner for shortwave 1.6 to 30MHz, for feeding verticals, longwires, dipoles etc. Like the well known SG-230 this tuner is primarily intended to feed wire antennas or monopoles, the antenna connector is simply a high voltage connector. If you intend to connect coax just connect the shield to ground. The tuner has a tuning range of 12 to 1000 Ω, max. power load is 150W.

Once a setting has been found it is stored in non-volatile memory, so that a new tuning on similiar frequencies happens very fast. The tuner uses a Pi network design which has the advantage (compared to L networks) that is acts as an additional low-pass filter, reducing spurious emissions.

The CG-3000 tuner is operated with 12V DC, other cotrol wires are not required. The solid plastic case is suitable for outdoor use, size approx. 365x240x75mm. U bolts with 55mm width are included. The minimal required antenna length is 2.5m for frequencies of 6MHz and up, or at least 8m for 1.8MHz and up. With a small glassfibre pole (not included) and some wires (not included) a good allband antenna is constructed within minutes.