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"markvictor" wrote:

And the fact that your aluminum mast is gonded ...why challenge the
working parameters of your tuner? It also prevents those tingles you
refer to when someone(yes, perhaps foolishly) comes in contact with
that backstay or mast while TXing... And I'm sure you realize that
despite what anyones opinion of it might be, that plastic AT-130 is the
most common tuner in the fleet these days...and works well enough with
an INSULATED backstay and efficient counterpoise....
regards
markvictor


Looks to "Me" that this fellows MF/HF Marine Radio experience has all
been since the invention of the Marine Radio Autotuner. If he had some
experience with the old Northern N555 tuners, or any of the RF Harris
channelized Tuners, his outlook would certainly be broader. If he had
to actually learn to TUNE an open wire antenna thru a channelized tuner
as the frequency approched 1/2 Wavelength, his outlook would be
different. But hey, I for one, admit that MF/HF Communications in
Marine Radio, is on its deathbed, and has very little future in the real
world. One can't expect newbies, to learn this Art, just because it
used to be the way the world communicated back in the 20th Century.

Me