John, don't presume---try the 3000 tuner. You might be surprised. Flex builds quality products, including tuners. Bob, NZ5A
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:28 PM, John Paolucci <jpa...@me.com> wrote: [this is my first post - I think this is the way it is done :) ] Antenna hook up question Here is my situation. I live in a valley location where antennas do not get out well. But I’m in a mountain area where I can drive to nice mountain top locations. So I plan on using the Flex 3000 with a laptop while parked in my car up high. Before, I used an Icom IC-7000 with an AH-4 automatic tuner hooked a Eagle One 31FT push up fiberglass mast (single wire inside the mast), and laid out a few ground radials. Tuning was a breeze on 80-10. I did web searches and found that hooking an AH-4 to a Flex 3000 may not be easy. I’m selling the IC-7000 so might as well sell the AH-4 with it too. I have a MFJ-933B automatic tuner which should be more universal than the AH-4 and I can use it with the 32 FT vertical wire. So I have two questions here. I presume that the Flex 3000 auto-tune does not have the range to match the 32 foot single wire on all bands even if I figured some way to hook the single wire to coax? Second, Flex 3000's Flexwire i/o can be wired to trigger the MFJ-933B? I suppose I could just key the Flex on low power while hitting the “tune” button on the MFJ, but it would be ideal if they were linked to one software “tune” button on the Flex. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
