I am getting ready to build a pile of Tunas, acquired from QRPme directly and through estate sales, all unbuilt. The first is a retired single band Two Tinned Tunas, now replaced by the EZ Build Version. The 2nd is an original Super Tuna ][ with version not marked, it has the scoring in case you want to put it in a square tin can. Third is a Super Tuna ][+ marked Ver 2. The Fourth is a Super Tuna ][+ marked Ver 4. I have a generous supply of band modules from the last three that might even allow me to have at least 2 xtals per the four bands, 10M included. First, I have 32 separate water tests for CL2 and Nitrates to sample over the next couple of weeks, pumping out all of the iron and other exotic minerals cruising around the mountain cracks in the hand pump wells. It has been raining like cats and dogs day and night here in the central Colorado mountains, so there are no fire bans this month, but the problem is the skidders are snowed in without being able to get a lot of the logs out that would be sending 1096 bundles of firewood to us x 4 or 5 depending on how wet of a summer it is.
I will have photos of the 3-band vertical I am building as well as some graphs of the VSWR patterns so the "Little Super Tuna ][+ that could" will be heard outside of the valley surrounded by 14K' peaks on all four sides.
David Knapp