[TenTec] Omni VII, Antenna tuning, etc.

[Grant Youngman]

> I think we have gotten off the topic.... 

Probably

> know a lot of hams that insist on having an outboard tuner 
> for their radios. 

I certainly do as well, one of those big bruiser things, plus a home brew
tuner build along these lines .. http://home.comcast.net/~w1ia/100_0900.JPG
I almost never turn on the amp any more, and my manual tuners are
permanently stuck in bypass mode :-)

My only point was that T_T's internal tuner works well and has a good
matching range unless you're trying to load a window screen or something on
160 :-)  Think "LDG" (and at one time it was actually LDG), but the idea is
the same.  I have no clue what kind of internal tuner was in a TS-930, but
if it was anything like what was in my IC-781, it probably wasn't very good.

Grant/NQ5T