![]() I had 4 contacts during a 160m contest last night. This set-up works excellent from 40m up, and passably below 40m with favorable conditions. My vehicle is very well grounded in multiple places, to frame, body, exhaust and engine. My current mobile set-up consists of an auto coupler, a 4' mast, a stainless pizza pan "Pizza-Hat" and a stainless whip. I sold my LDG tuner and since I don't use amplifier's also sold mt MFJ-986 tuner and use the EDX-2 exclusively on a wide range of antennas. Put the rig in tune with a little RF, stomp on the foot pedal and bingo it's tuned in a split second. I use a foot pedal connected to the START terminal. I added an SO-239 to the case and simply paralleled it with the random wire antenna terminal and of course added a ground. All it requires is a couple of watts of RF and then you short the START terminal to ground and maintain it until tuning is complete. Little has been written about using this tuner with other brand radios. I use one as my main station antenna tuner. I am a used ham gear dealer and have seen many automatic tuners come and go but the EDX-2 winds hand done. I am not currently using it BUT I still own and plan on keeping it! ![]() All you have to do do is apply a little RF and ground the TUNE terminal and it will find a perfect match. ![]() You can use this tuner with ANY rig with as little as a couple of watts. I tossed up an MFJ 31 foot vertical fiberglass mast with a piece of 22 gauge spirally wound around and laid out out 10 temporary radials and the EDX-2 would tune this vertical on ANY band including 160 meters with excellent results. It will tune virtually anything, any time on any band. I added an SO-239 and have used the EDX-2 as a main station tuner for a quit a period of time. ![]()
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