[ICOM] Correction - ATU Mobile

William Lambing w0lpq9 at msn.com
Fri Mar 10 21:26:37 EST 2006


Those who desire to see some results, take a look at KJ9T.com and look at the shootout results take on 3875.  These are held twice a year in Anderson, IN at Mounds State Park.  

The test rig is a 706IIg running 10W.  Many of the guys are running 706IIg's, so unplugging their radios/coax and inserting the test rig is easy.

I know in my case, the screwdriver was a tremendous improvement over Hamsticks.  Granted with a good tuner, you could tune a 40M Hamstick to 75 or 20.  However look at the efficiency.  The tuner "makes" the radio happy with the antenna, but is far from optimum.  In some cases the Hustlers beat the Hamstick.  In others they did not.

Bill, W0LPQ


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