MFJ-969 deluxe versa tuner roller inductor HF antenna tuner 

Yeah, I have a MFJ 969 Versa Tuner II also. I used to use it for my old Kenwood TS-430s but now I have a Yaesu 991a with an internal tuner. So far the Yaesu internal tuner will tune any of my antennae since my antennae are nearly resonate. I even got my coax cables mixed up and plugged my Ringo Ranger II into the HF antenna and it tuned it for 10 meters without any problems. Only thing is, I couldn't tune the Antron 99 to 2 meters 'cause the tuner only works on HF 30Hz to 6 meters--same as the MFJ 969. Finally got my cables straightened out and got 'em marked in case we have another electrical storm. 73 from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

Ive had the same one for about 15 yrs and it always works great. If the roller inductor starts feeling a little crunchy, a small shot of deoxit and let it dry, does the trick.

Great video. One thing though... this is REALLY IMPORTANT and part of the FCC RULES. when you’re testing any equipment and transmitting, you need to sat your calls and say “Call sign testing” just a note for all the people that watch this video. Cheers and 73 from K7HN.

Yours are some of the best amateur radio videos on RU-vid. very informative. GM4SVM

Nice vid. You sold me on manual tuners. I'm a brand spankin' new General. Passed my Tech and General a week ago. I won a used Alinco DX-77 radio and W5RV antenna so I'm looking for a tuner to complete the HF rig. This 969 looks nice!

This is my newest favorite YT page, no lie! Thank you!!! N0BPS

Love it! Mine arrives tomorrow. Cheers. Andy

Great very clear explanation. Thanks

Glad I signed up! Love it every time I watch. Thanks!

Bought one 3 months ago for 100 bucks! Love it!

Thanks I have one of these, helpful video

Very instructive and claryfying video. Thanks for posting. 73

Really helpful. Thank you, guys.

Just scored one of these for a good price. 👍👍👍

Love this 969

To the point, thanks for posting.

Love mine. I have the same model in gray face.

Brilliant what i was looking for, M1KEY MIKE

Great video thanks

Love mine. I have one of the older models before they upgraded the look a little. I had to clean the roller inductor a little and fix a few cold solder joints when I first got it though. Their quality control is horrible.

So can you run a 1.5kw pep amp into one of these?

what would be the point in tuning the tuner into the dummy load? it's a perfect 50 ohm resistor load so tuning has no effect.

I really like this tuner because it covers 6 meters- most stop at 30 MHz.. I thought the 949e covered the 6 meter band, but I guess it doesn't..

But! Do you set your roller inductor FIRST? then you adjust the antenna and transmitter. Elaborate please.

You say power is not necessary except for the lighted panel meter. Actually, power, whether from battery or wall wart apply power to the meter and to the metering circuit (transistor) and the forward power meter.

with the top open it looks like both coax and ladder-line use the same balun? or maybe the coax balun is switched out of the ckt when using ladder-line? would anyone know?

I bought the same tuner, used in mint condition, at eBay Germany. But I think someone "de-synconizised" the counter (maybe after a repair or so). Speciallly the inside position of the brass-connector of the coil is not syncron to the counter. For my correct unterstanding and a new selfmade syncronisation: The absolutely right stop-position of the inductor wheel is for about 50,2MHz and similar with the absolutely backward stop-position of the brass-connector inside the coil. At this position the counter (over the inductor wheel at the front) has to show about "123" (concerning the MFJ-manual, page5). If I rotate the inductor wheel to the absoluteley left stop-position, the brass connector inside the coil has to be at the absoluteley front-position and the counter shows about "033" for about 1,8MHz. Is that ok? I hope you understand what i mean. Kind regards from Germany Mr. Rainer Reinhardt

If you take out on field day how would you ground it (or where would be the best place to ground)

didn't really follow the instruction manual's procedure for tuning but close enough i suppose.

I using this tuner on my Yaesu FT 991a so the radio goes from 5 W too 100w , what power setting do I use to tune up at ? 30w ?

LOL - Tune with dummy load :) :D

wished you would have run 100 watts.

I only wished that MFJ made some high quality products. But they didn't.