[Elecraft] on the topic of autotuners

[Darrell Bellerive]

Well said Steve!

The only other thing missing from the Elecraft tuners is the ability to mount  
them remotely. A Elecraft remote tuner would be just plain wonderful!

Darrell
VA7TO

On February 6, 2005 7:48 am, Steve Jackson wrote:
> I like the guys in Maryland who make these fine units.
>  However, I sold mine, in favor of the Elecraft
> tuners.
>
> Why?
>
> Three reasons:
>
> 1. (obvious) the integrated, automatic
> pre-setting-per-antenna-per-VFO function, and the
> (also obvious) dual antenna jack feature ... just way
> too useful to not have.
>
> 2. (not so obvious) the LDG and most other relay-type
> autotuners stop diddling the Ls and Cs when the
> indicated VSWR ratio gets to a place where they decide
> it's OK.  The Elecraft tuning algorithm is recursive,
> "passing" the implicit null(s) and finding the "real"
> one.  Once you have this feature, you won't go back.
>
> 3.  (also not obvious) the Elecraft autotuners do a
> better job matching the odd, and often abruptly high
> impedances of field antennas, than the LDG or the SGC
> (except the SGC-237 and -239).
>
> Eric and Wayne could probably afford to be a bit less
> humble about the advantages of their tuners vs. the
> other guys.  Indeed, it's been suggested, more than
> once, to make a version of the Elecraft KAT100 tuner
> suitable for use by non-Elecrafters.
>
> Whoever THEY are!  ;-)
>
> The only thing missing from the Elecraft tuners is a
> bypass function.
>

-- 
Darrell Bellerive
Amateur Radio Stations: VA7TO, VE7CLA
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada