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Icom AT-150 Antenna tuner
Just taken delivery of a second hand one of these.
Im going to try it out tonight, albeit I havent made the G5RV I intend to make for it yet, so I'tll have to go through the 11 meter dipole I have.
We'll see, I'm hoping to see if there is any Echo Charlie freebanding going on locally.
Not that I would ever use it 
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10/Oct/2007, 2:13 pm
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Re: Icom AT-150 Antenna tuner
The tuner works exceptionally well on the amateur bands. It will automatically tune the G5RV in a couple of seconds to 1:1 vswr, without transmitting.
The problems start when you try and use it outside of the ham bands, a lot of fiddling around with adjustment to get it to work on the Echo Charlie bands, which it now does, but no matter what I do it doesnt like the 11 mb. Which is not too much of an issue as the SY-27 dipole I have seems to work fine for 11mb. I would have liked to try out the G5RV on 11 meters though.
My advice is to do more reseach on ATU's before buying one. Had I realised this I would have bought a manual tuner.
It may be possible to open up the range, but at the moment I cant find any information on this.
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15/Oct/2007, 9:04 am
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Re: Icom AT-150 Antenna tuner
manual tuner all the way dave,i've got a fv707 to match the ft707 radio in for repair?? nearly 30 years old brillant with a 150 pwr/swr meter & 150 dummy load.also use the EDX 1 to match the alinco dx70 iam using at mo ,looking to put a g5 or 1/2 wave dipole ,so i can SWL???? once i've sorted mast out for bottom of garden.
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