Hi Fred,
There are lots of good antenna tuners out there.  I'm using the MFJ 986 as 
it has a good low loss ballon in it.  The 989D and the 976 are also very 
good roller inductor tuners.  Mfj also makes a new line of automatic antenna 
tuners call the 993B and 994B but these are the relay type tuners and I 
don't think they are very efficient, though I haven't compared them side by 
side to  my 986.
I have an RF Applications T2000 cw watt meter that can help with tuning. 
But, I use the Vectronics VEC512 noise bridge which I like a lot better. 
When you null out the pulsing noise, the swr is almost always 1-1 and I 
don't have to worry about covering  up someone with an on-the-air signal to 
tune up my tuner.
73
Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:07 PM
Subject: external antenna tuner.


Hi Bob,

I saw a post from you a couple weeks ago on the blind-hams list concerning
your use of an external antenna tuner rather than an internal one, any
suggestions as to which one you might recomend and how you tune it?

Fred Olver  [log in to unmask]