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Date: | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:05:28 -0400 |
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Butch,
I have a MFJ-998 in the shack. I'd give it a 4 out of 5 rating. It
will handle 1500 watts, which is more then my AL-80B or THP solid state
amp will put out. The problem I think you will find with auto tuners
including the ones built into the radio is limited matching range due to
the fixed values of L and C. You won't be able to load your
grandmother's walker on 40 meters.
It has a ton of memories and up and down L and C buttons so you can find
a match manually if the auto function can't. An optional 20$ cable
will interface to many rigs, and when connected this way hitting the
auto tune button on the rig bypasses the internal tuner, puts the rig
into cw mode at low power for the tune process, then returns to
original mode and power when tuning is complete. If the amp relay
jacks on the tuner are connected between the amp and radio, the amp
will be bypassed during tune up. This relay is also supposed to
prevent the amp from keying in the event of a high swr, but I can't say
that I've really tested this function fully.
There are some menus for which sighted help would be needed, but they
are the set it and forget it type of stuff. Things like swr point at
which it should start looking for a better match, and swr point for the
amp relay to bypass the amp.
73, Steve KW3A
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