[Icom] MFJ

Wed, 14 May 2003 10:25:37 EDT

Hi group,

Just a quick note to express my MFJ experiences.  I use an Icom IC-735 and 
feed the antennas with a little MFJ 941D Antenna Tuner I bought at a hamfest 
for almost nothing.  It works really well and is every bit as good with the 
100 Watt level 735 as a much larger Heath tuner.  My 259 antenna analyzer is 
great and I'd be hard pressed to do without it for building antennas and for 
setting the tuner without transmitting.

All this being said, I won a couple of MFJ mini mag mount antennas at our 
local ham club.  The 2 meter one tunes great according to the antenna 
analyzer.  The other one, a 2 meter - 70 cm model is tuned to about 118 MHz!  
I sent MFJ an E-mail and they say I must have damaged coax or something!  
This for a brand new product.  I can't check it on 70 cm so don't know how it 
tunes there.  I did learn a good lesson - check new antennas and be sure they 
are really up to specs.

73 to all,

Norm Hall, W6JOD/0 at the moment.

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