[TenTec] Omni VII, Antenna tuning, etc.

[Carter, K8VT]

Bob McGraw - K4TAX wrote:

>  I noticed "smoke coming out of the box".  I opened it up to discover
>  the tapped inductor and it's plastic structural supports to be stinky
>  gooey brown limp bars.  Fortunately the stiffness of the wire held
>  things in reasonable shape.  Although the tuner didn't arc or
>  flash-over, as far as a 1.5KW PEP power rating, it isn't. {Name
>  omitted to protect the guilty.}

I hope you have some mighty fine justification to "protect the 
guilty".   ;-)