They attach to the coax directly No Joy. When I started troubleshooting this originally I pulled and checked the coaxes one by one and never found an issue. I started doing this again today and realized, I never removed the SO to PL adaptor from the back of my amp THAT was the culprit the whole time I sent it to Paul for no reason at all! The adaptor is showing to be open, so the carrier could never get to the Tuner to trigger a tuning cycle Gee Whiz!! It has worked very well, but eventually the backlight began to go wonky.
Opening up the tuner it appears the backlight of these tuners is not easily serviceable. It looks like they expect you to replace the entire meter assembly if such a problem should arise. The meter face and movement has been designed to open up the range used most often, especially operating bare-foot see picture. The meter is part of an upgrade kit from an outfit called Kessler Engineering in Ohio.
I risked it and bought a meter kit. No seriously, I've had both the MFJ auto tuners and this one. I prefer the Palstar because it is much quieter and it doesn't have the tendency to start hunting when using SSB.
I could go on for another hour, Just read all the other reviews. It is a solid performer. More than 12 Months. There is a delay before newly submitted reviews are Approved and posted in eHam's reviews. The delay is for new review screening and approval.
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Offering rewards for good reviews can create bias in reviews that savvy review readers can detect. Takes mere seconds to "manually tune" the Palstar tuner to the preconfigured settings. Of course the Palstar manual tuner can handle legal limit output power and is capable of tuning a wet shoe string. Don't try that with your auto tuner though. Auto tuners would probobly be a good choice for mobile radio enviroment situation but I can't say I really like auto tuners for everyday use in the shack.
I don't even bother using the autotuner built into my rigs. My Best,. Palstar AT2K here, built like a tank. Very nice meter. Heavy duty antenna switch. Not sure how you could go wrong. NE4W , Apr 2,
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