Hi Butch,
No problem with that which you say.
I agree with you about noise bridges, and I'm gonna get one, and the Vec512 is what I hope to get.
Problem is, hro Delaware doesn't have one and doesn't sell them.
So, for right now, all I have is all I have, so I'm not against noise bridges, that's where I'm at at the moment.
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Butch Bussen 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:53 PM
  Subject: Re: what next? my rig is gone!


  Well, you're just flat wrong about auto tuners.  You can tell me 2 and 2 
  is 5 all day and that won't make it so.  I've used auto tuners and manual 
  tuners since I got my 440 with one in 1985.  I got my novice license in 
  1961, never got on the air but got my general in 1968.  The only auto 
  tuner I have had trouble with is this last m f j I got, and I should have 
  known better.  We all don't know auto tuners are bad.  If you don't like 
  them, so be it, but a blanket statement like that just isn't so.  If you 
  insist on using a manual tuner, than for heaven sake get something so you 
  know when it is tuned.  You can not, and I say again can not do it just by 
  listening to the noise.  Yep, I've lived in all kinds of places and had 
  all kinds of antennas.  Here is what I think plain and simple.  You chose 
  to not get a radio with an auto tuner.   I have no problem with that.  You 
  also chose to use an external tuner without a real way to tell what it is 
  doing.  That is what blew up your 120.  Your choice and your money, but 
  that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
  73
  Butch
  WA0VJR
  Node 3148
  Wallace, ks.