[Elecraft] on the topic of autotuners

[William Johnson]

I own several tuners to  operate  other equipment, which I must sadly
admit I own, and Elecraft tuners outperform, IMHO,  all of them! 

Bill 

WR Johnson 
920-421-1172 


-----Original Message-----
    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