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