When I was shopping for a home, I had my IC706 in my car. I tuned the HF frequencies while at the prospective home and listened for noise. Maybe you can asked someone who has a mobile HF station to help you check out possible QTH's. If you have a choice go for more land and less house. The farther away from neighbors, the better. Also, do not believe what real estate agents tell you re: restrictions, etc. They have been known to tell a fib or two.  Good luck.

Have been building a new station from scratch and enjoyed doing extensive business with AES for the past two years and can't say enough good things about them.

HRO was my favorite for many years, but then they knowingly sold FT1000MP's that had a high probability of being defective without informing prospective customers.  Tough luck if one failed.  AES at least gave a heads up. Two years ago I moved to a new QTH and am building a new station from scratch.  HRO hasn't seen the first dime from this endeavor nor will they.

I've used these tuners over the last ten years on a boat (40 ft cruising trawler), motorhome (34 ft Bounder), airplane (Twincommander), and our Jeep with excellent results. First, run a single wire (6 ga. or bigger) to an earth ground for DC safety purposes. Then run as many radials, also from the ground lug, mininum 8 ft long, as your individual circumstances allow. They don't have to be straight or level. Remember, these wires will be hot with RF during transmit, so place them accordingly.

 

How about some real life reviews of the KT34XA ?

I want all zeros to always have slashes through them regardless of what program I happen to be running.  Any suggestions?

It ain't broke, so don't fix it.

I use two large Dynaplates on a 40 ft trawler with good success. The 'plates have a large surface area as they are extremely porous.  I might suggest you use the SGC230 Smart Tuner with the 706 as you won't have to use a control wire. I mounted that tuner on the mast (yes, we have a mast on a stinkpotter) and fed a long wire that ran to the bow pulpit.  This installation offers acceptable performance. The best HF antenna on board is a 23 ft Shakespear fiberglass vertical fed by another Smart Tuner. A friend has this antenna mounted on a railing near the stern of his Morgan 38 and it works pretty good. Use braided cable for ground runs if possible. If not, the larger the wire the better.  Don't worry about the tiny losses in RG8X on HF.
73,
Terry

Borrow the R7000 and mount it as far as possible from the Butternut (to prevent interaction) and switch between the two and see which one performs the best. The fence may be acting as a radial system. I've owned two R7000's and once they are up and running, they are good antennas. Cushcraft seems to have some QC problems.  I am now using the Butternut with 20+ radials and it is a keeper. I use the R7000 on a motorhome when we go camping.