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Review Summary For : Vectronics VC-300M
Reviews: 5MSRP: too much
Description:
160-10Mt manual tuner 300W
Product is in production
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0053.6
AC0MO Rating: 2019-03-13
Poor quality control Time Owned: more than 12 months.
The tuner was bad out of the box. The inductor switch wiper was bent. I fixed the bent wiper but over time the switch would cause high swr. A new wiper is $25 from MFJ.
OH8EFI Rating: 2017-12-23
Bang for the buck! Not bad! Time Owned: more than 12 months.
My first antenna tuner. I have a feeling it will tune a one meter wire to 160m band hi hi.
Gotta admit, this tuner has served me well. I am not regretting this second hand purchase in any way!
GD1MIP Rating: 2011-10-01
Only if its cheap Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
Err, horrible. It looks OK and now its been fixed it works OK.

But it had these defects;-

1. Neither variable capacitor tuning knob was correctly attached and would slip on the shaft. Only needed a grub screw tightening.

2. Worse still the band select switch melted as I applied a maximun of 5 watts from an FT817D on 80m into a full wave loop with a balun. Needed a new 12 way switch.

Defects dealt with and its now a good un. There is another version of this unit see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c6cOJ6etg8 but it seems that has issues too. http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4771


73 Andy

AA8PP Rating: 2009-11-06
Good tuner Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Just received mine today. Purchased it used and it works flawlessly. Use it on my Van Gorden G5RV antenna. Using it with my new FT-450AT rig. Found the new built in tuner leaves something to be desired compared to the old FT-890AT or the TS-480SAT that I owned previously and this levels the playing field.
IK1WGZ Rating: 2004-12-16
Good bang for the buck Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
Great manual tuner, I use it with a vertical antenna that works on 10-15-20-40 and I can tune also 80-30-17-12 and even 6 meters!! The only recommendation is to tune with low power, max 10 watt.