The End Fed Tuner

Tuners are pricey, The cheapest in the catalogs is in the 70 dollar range. I'm no antenna guru but the endfed tuner promoted by Steve, http://www.aa5tb.com/ , is easy to make and cheap, mine all came from a junkbox and the toroid could be done as an airwound coil if one were not available, the T 50-2 was robust enough for my MFJ 9420 and 33 feet of a $5.00 2oo foot spool was rigged as a horizonal, sloper and an inverted V and has worked from the Ukrane to Japan to South America. Another advantage is the need for only a .05WL counterpoise-a real plus in a second floor shack.