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"Richard B. McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 9 Jan 2016 07:48:37 -0800
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I did not know that this is a common problem.  You are right, in this case I
feel lucky ; )

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 6:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Initial Questions on MFJ-998 Operations

Good deal Richard.  If your tuner will tune your vertical everywhere except
the very top of 10 meters, put a big smile on your face and enjoy the bands.

The inability of a tuner to tune a particular  antenna on a particular 
part of a band is a very common problem.   Guys spend hours tweaking 
and adjusting, changing feedline lengths and other stuff  just to get  a
match on 20 or 40 or whatever.  If this is your biggest problem in this
whole process, count yourself lucky.

Despite  their convenience, auto tuners generally don't have the matching
range of a good quality manual tuner.  Sometimes you just have to live with
it.

73, Steve KW3A

On 1/8/2016 9:11 AM, Richard B. McDonald wrote:
> Hi Steve!
>
> Well, I do not do much - nothing really - at the top end of 10M.  That 
> said, perhaps only because it annoys me that there is this funkiness - 
> I think I will keep your instructions below and circle back to this 
> and try to resolve it.  Thanks so much for your sage advice.
>
> 73,
> Richard KK6MRH

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