MFJ Enterprises Original MFJ-949E 1.8-30 MHz 300 Watt Deluxe Versa Tuner II Antenna Tuner

For Petes sake! I spent $200 and you cant even include a 12 inch connector coax cable. What?, it would cost you another 50. cents. Now I have to go an order another cable, or drive 45 minutes one way to the only Ham Radio Outlet store in my city. Just Cheap cheap cheap. Well I am revising my review down to 1 star. I called both the technical services number and the factory number. The first was a wireless number that was not is service (tried it 3 times). The second was a mobile with a mail box that had not been set up. Just plain Lousy series MFJ

For Petes sake! I spent $200 and you cant even include a 12 inch connector coax cable. What?, it would cost you another 50. cents. Now I have to go an order another cable, or drive 45 minutes one way to the only Ham Radio Outlet store in my city. Just Cheap cheap cheap. Well I am revising my review down to 1 star. I called both the technical services number and the factory number. The first was a wireless number that was not is service (tried it 3 times). The second was a mobile with a mail box that had not been set up. Just plain Lousy series MFJ

This tuner will tune almost anything. The basic model has been around a long time and has proven to be a reliable tuner. Its rather compact for a tuner and should fit into most ham stations. Its fairly easy to tune, and once you tune it for a particular antenna, if you keep a chart nearby, you can readily set it to give you a perfect match on a particular portion of any ham band between 160-10 meters, and if you have the latest model, 6 meters also (I havent personally tried it on 6M). Tuneup on a frequency the first time is easy. First, rotate the three tuning knobs for best reception as a starting point. Then, using low power (just enough to get a full scale meter reading at the low power range of the SWR meter), key the transmitter for a few seconds while making adjustments with the three knobs until you see a low SWR or a perfect match. While its unlikely that youll not get close to a perfect match, if you cant, its time to make adjustments to your antenna, or change its length, whatever it takes. There is a better tuner MFJ makes that has a roller inductor instead of a switched/tapped inductor (it handles 300 watts, too), but this one should match almost any antenna you have without adding the expense of the roller inductor (and it takes a little longer to get the more expensive one tuned the first time for a frequency since you have unlimited steps in between what you would have on this tuner). I like the cross-needle SWR meter that doubles as a power meter. It allows you to quickly see your SWR by looking at where the two needles cross. You cant ask for much more than this for a tuner for a typical HF 100-200 watt ham transceiver, unless you move into the automatic tuners, which are great (I have two of the MFJ auto-tuners, too). But for the price, this is a rugged little tuner. If you are tuning a random wire, make sure you have a good ground or counterpoise (not just a pipe driven into the ground). Ive used this successfully with a 135 foot random wire on all HF bands. It will also let you work the portions of the HF bands on trap verticals/dipoles where the SWR goes high outside the bandwidth of the antenna, making it useful outside the band section(s) where it would normally provide a 50 ohm match for your rig.

Priced right. Works great. I especially like the built in 50 ohm load.

Way too touchy when tuning.

Works great I use it on 11 meter Im very happy with it thanks

works excellent....thank you amazon..

Works great easy to use.

Bought as a gift

Good quality workmanship. Worked just as expected.