I'll echo Barry's recommendation. My two antennas are a Butternut HF2V
vertical with a 160m kit on it, and a short 40m G5RV at 30'. I have run at
100 watts to a full gallon on all bands from 160m - 10m on all HF bands
except for 60m (just not interested in it). The 238B has always tuned
repeatably, and well. No problems at all. Yes, the first time you tune an
antenna on a new band it may take a while to find a match, but once you have
it, you can repeat it easily if you note the settings. I've worked 7BDXCC
and have ~320 confirmed entities, so it's not just my opinion - it works
great for me!
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:46 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Tuner Questions
I've found the 238 a very reliable tuner over the years, running full
legal limit on 160M and 80M. One of these days I have to update and
get a 238C.
Barry N1EU
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Richard Bell <richfbell@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> Opinions about any of the Ten-Tec 238 series tuners are wanted. I'll
take the
> the good, bad or indifferent?
>
> I am considering a tuner and naturally would like something to match my
Omni
> VII. I see some advantages to the 238C in that it has a built-in balun.
>
> I've considered a Palstar AT2K but am not decided.
>
> For the record, I have two Drake tuners, MN-2000 and MN-2700. I'm using a
balun
> from DX Engineering with both of them.
>
>
> Feel free to send me your thoughts, richfbell@sbcglobal.net or share them
with
> everyone. Biased comments are expected and welcomed.
>
> 73 W5BXE
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