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Old October 19th 13, 01:05 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Homebrew Coil Form Factor

On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 13:27:43 -0600, "Irv Finkleman" wrote:

... and a MFJ-931 Artificial
Ground. The Windowsill/Balcony tuner also has an Artificial Ground
Tuner in it too.

The loading coil with the MFJ-1625 is pretty flimsy and I might just
consider rewinding the coil with heavier copper (the orginal coil had
a broken turn). All of the aforementioned
equipment I picked up used or broken and fixed
up (a little extra solder in the right places never
hurt MFJ stuff), the 931 had a blown meter, ...


Know what you mean. I bought an MFJ 931 a couple of months ago, and only
recently hooked it up to find it does nothing at all. No changes in noise level,
not a dickey birds worth of movement from the meter with the power cranked up to
100 watts - nothing. So, it looks like I am about to do what you commented on
that a little extra solder in the right places never hurt MFJ stuff!

Couldn't resist commenting after seeing your post.

73, Bob KB2ZGN