Another big thank you to Scott for organizing the group buy!
I ordered a QRP autotuner and a QRO one (greedy!).
Finished building the QRP one today. It not only looks splendid in its
custom TenTec made case, but actually works VERY VERY WELL INDEED! It
actually worked first time, exactly as per the manual. It can acheive a
working match on all bands from 80 to 10m on my ladder line fed 40m
dipole (with a balun at the bottom in the shack) - something I couldn't
do with my HB manual pi-tuner - and it acheives a better match than I
could get manually in most cases!
Here are a few things I did to spruce it up a bit:
1) Used a blue LED for "Red2" - looks nicer, but cost me a dollar!
2) Put packing washers behind the "TUNE" push switch to keep it flush
with the front panel
3) Changed the SO239 sockets for top quality ones - silver/teflon/gold.
The tuner makes qrp life real easy now - it's unbelieveably fast, around
a half second to one second in most cases. This will make more time for
QSOs and will be great for TTF contests and camping trips.
TTFN, Dave Fifield, KQ6FR
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