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full reviews: I'm a Gen. class HAM radio guy and retired electronics tech, in NAVY and civilian world. The unit comes with no battery, there is a reason for that, that being, you can not use carbon/alk batteries due to the internal changer will damage them or the unit, so its designed for, Lithium battery , and It will charge them, A battery 12vdc lithium can cost as much as this unit., so they sell it, battery box empty, keeping the price low. I solute you on that decision.! but others will cry.... They do not know what battery you want or need, there are many 12v battery technologies... some users don't need a battery at all, so .... they need not pay this large cost. other need one, antenna work at the antenna. if you are careful, as i have done i installed, 8 cell aaa pack and do not ever use said pack ,with the power pack plugged in. with non chargable batteries present, that to is missing this pack and most hams have like 10 laying around, 13.8v. and all ham shacks are fitted out with this, already to run modern DC radios. using same voltage. So how does it work.? I did all tests in the manual with L, C and LCR networks and all read correctly or in the case of the LCR, it tuned an nulled out. (tank circuits) then I run my software and plot my antenna's (many ) from ham AK4R, google him. (super good sware) This unit can save damage to your gear, HF transceiver or big RF amp. (run 1kw, SB200) finding the true cause of high VSWR. using this wonderful analyzer. I can also build custom antenna' now and tune them super easy, at the antenna. the only short coming for this buyers lacking 13.8v power packs is to offer the tool with one, for say $10 more, as an option. and offer a lithium cell as an option, it wont be cheap. On great feature of this device, is that its open source. and we can see how it all works and change things if you have the skills. To be sure, I LOVE mine, its has already paid for itself many times now.. I can trim my 40m antenna to center it on my favorite channel. I can learn my custom antenna's band width use the great scan feature of above software. I can use this tool to save buying an antenna tuner ($$$$) buy tuning the antenna to match the transmitter impedance perfectly and low VSw2. I could tell more, but is enough. Love it. ps: i have full review on Eham , and is expanding as i use it more."see reviews" there. google Eham , find it go there and read the reviews there, some are not good only do to lack of facts in the instructions, that by the way are missing in the box new. they told me they will email them and did not. but searching the internet , sure expected, bingo , a book.Read full review
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