You seriously recommend people use this piece of crap on a boat?
Its a really a poorly designed and built
Antenna Tuner whose ratings are very questionable. I have repaired a few of these for various sailors and I have seen them being used.
The ones that I came across got burnt out from minor indirect
lightning hits, burnt out on the switch when used for too long on
Pactor, Tuning capacitor arced out because of insufficient voltage rating. Thats before we start talking about the 250 volt rated non RF
current rated switch.
To tune a end fed wire that could expose the
parts to thousands of volts and high
current using something as marginal as this MFJ tuner is extremely risky. But hey, some people have luck and if it works when they leave dockside thats all that they care about.
Attached inside picture.
Marginal capacitor, switch, voltage and current ratings. Thats before the whole thing gets eaten away by
corrosion due to lack of
weather resistance. There are much better choices out there. It would be a good present for your enemy.
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Originally Posted by trifan
At the March meeting (4th Mon, 26th) of a local radio club in north Texas they will have an auction and one of the items is an MJF-16010 HF long wire antenna tuner. Google it. I figure it would work well on a boat and maybe better than the built-in tuner of most HF rigs. My experience, anyway. How to get it? One way would be to PM me and let me know your top bid amount and I will bid on it for you. No handling fees from me, all it would cost is the bid and whatever shipping would be to you. What happens if more than one of you want to bid? Not sure I've thought that through . I suppose I would take the highest bidder from CF and use that amount at the auction. There wasn't much else there boat related except a Unimetrics SH-66 VHF marine transceiver. I posted this here instead of in the classifieds because this seemed to be the better place. Admins might disagree. If so, I apologize in advance.
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