{"id":46992,"date":"2020-12-18T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46992"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:16:56","slug":"my-initial-review-of-the-new-mat-tuner-mat-705plus-on-qrper-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/my-initial-review-of-the-new-mat-tuner-mat-705plus-on-qrper-com\/","title":{"rendered":"My initial review of the new Mat-Tuner mAT-705Plus on QRPer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re an Icom IC-705 owner and have been waiting for Mat-Tuner to address the design shortcomings of their original mAT-705<\/a>, you might want to check out my initial review of the new mAT-705Plus ATU posted over on QRPer.com<\/a>. It includes a video of the new ATU in action.<\/p>\n

In short, this upgraded model looks very promising. Not only does it address my concerns with the original model, but it also seems to tune very effectively and efficiently.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re an Icom IC-705 owner and have been waiting for Mat-Tuner to address the design shortcomings of their original mAT-705, you might want to check out my initial review of the new mAT-705Plus ATU posted over on QRPer.com. It includes a video of the new ATU in action. In short, this upgraded model looks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,3607,836,3,129],"tags":[7978,7977,8973,9046],"class_list":["post-46992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-antennas","category-new-products","category-news","category-reviews","tag-ic-705","tag-icom-ic-705","tag-mat-tuner-mat-705","tag-mat-tuner-mat-705plus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cdW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46532,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/portable-tuner-atu-options-for-the-new-icom-ic-705\/","url_meta":{"origin":46992,"position":0},"title":"Portable tuner (ATU) options for the new Icom IC-705","author":"Thomas","date":"November 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who asks: What are good choices for ATU and 100W amplifier for the IC-705? 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