Has anybody given any thought to what an antenna tuner of any kind
adds to your enjoyment in ham life. I have the MFJ 3kw tuner
with the roller inductor and differential capacitor and what a
charmer it is. I dont worry about my inverted dipoles mostly
Vertical polarized. I just crank up on any freqcy between
1.6 and 30 mhz and dont give a dam about gain or lack of same.
It just makes life so ez to do it that way. Why you ask.
Because it protects the ic751's output stages. Think of the
tuner as a RF SUCKER, it just sucks all the dangerous stuff
out of the rig and puts it in the tuner. How much of that
power gets finally radiated I could care less. I work
mostly on MARS freqcys and none of them are inside the ham bands
so this tuner serves me well.
Joe/KH6JF/ABM6JF


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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Reg Edwards wrote:

Richard Clark,

I fully support your "All antennas have zero gain" campaign.

Why not join the "There's no such thing as an SWR meter" campaign?
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Reg, G4FGQ