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 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
