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Wheres JJ I tried 37,39 and 40....

Yes Sir all correct. I did not move it under power. Just like those variable TX stars, big no no but people do it. It was just defective out of the box. Smelled some serious "10 ohm" smell out of is as well immidately after keing up with it inline so something or many somethings were not well...

Yes Sir. I'm fine without that tuner inline. It was brand new and defective out of the box. I was just working at future proofing for the ham bands ahead of time but it didn't work out. Seller sent me a return label so all is well other than my disappointment with MFJ. I WILL now however test...

Sounds lovely. My wife is cold blooded keeps the house boiling if temps outside drop even slightly. Leaves me overheated and faint lol. Dang island dolls. I even forgot what my handle was trying to have a QSO...

Wife cooked some kind of Asian soup, Philippine fried chicken and rice with her spiked up soy sauce with onion, garlic, Thai chili and calamansi - delicious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamansi

It was intended for ham bands once I get my license but that tuner didn't last 2 minutes. Fortunantly my antennas are around 1.5 and 1.2 for CB presently straight through so I didn't "need" the tuner I was just trying to future proof the station and have one unit for meter/coax switch/tuner but...

Well that went badly wrong. That brand new MFJ 986 was bleeding RF talkback everywhere, would tune down then shoot up to sky high SWR and a something electronic ozone smell is coming from it with a whole 500 (supposedly can take 1.5k max) max watts in. This thing is going back immidately. I did...

Unfortunantly I'll be in the office tomorrow no access to radio but I will try catch you this weekend @unit_399 need to see what you hear of the new setup. 73s LSB

Have one of these due tomorrow night. We will see what it's meter thinks for fun.

So WHERE are you lot hanging out so I stop looking in all the wrong places as the song goes....

@unit_399 where ya at lol

Yes Sir, I have done that. That's what generated my original numbers.

I believe so, yes to include dipping. That's just all it has to give with present tube it came with I suppose.

He is a ham. I wouldnt have thought he beat it to death but no telling. It's certainly functional just maybe not at peak power that it could be. Guess I have to decide if that's worth 300 bucks to find out...

@nomadradio I did not find any condition when tuned up where filament glow was even a little reddish. It remained a constant warm yellow/white glow with no dimming. I am fairly "close" to the mains in the garage, relatively speaking. The voltage meter on the front only flicks back slightly, not...

This is what both meters claim pep but as you can see they differ quite a bit from one another. My AM is significantly less as the yaesu only does 25dk and maybe swings toward 50 w mod. Judging with your videos and Nomads advice it would seem I am indeed soft. Bugger. Time for new tube I guess.

Yes Sir, I thought not myself. It does seem the general consensus is I'm a little soft but would that be 100 in @120 that does it usually or @240?

Awsome info ty Sir I will give it a shot.

Dang it JJ. NOW I'm paranoid all my amazon LED lights are tearing me up. A new hunt ensues....also love your work @Crawdad7

Oof. And replacing said soft tube would then take a new 300ish dollar Z and convert it into the same condition as the one I have presently if operated on 120. I wonder how much it would cost me to take 240 round to the living room.... Given the operating conditions I laid out ...what would...