Don: requiring a wide ranging ATU is half of the question, Don!! What is truly "significant" is this - many hams, new or otherwise, fail to understand whether they really need an ATU in the shack or do they really, REALLY need an ATU out at the antenna. For me, THAT's the mystifying piece of the "ATU question" that always shows up.....
71.5/72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV Don Wilhelm wrote > Wunder, > > The only reason I can understand is that they can get away by stating > that they have an internal ATU. Sadly many hams (particularly newer > hams) gloss over the significance of the need for a wide range ATU. > They don't discover that they need an external tuner for their > "multiband" antenna until after they buy the transceiver and discover > that it is inadequate. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 4/25/2016 7:25 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: >>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Wayne Burdick < > n6kr@ > > wrote: >>> >>> - *Wide-range ATU (> 10:1 at 100 W; > 20:1 at low power) and two >>> antenna jacks >> I am really mystified about why transceivers include a 3:1 range ATU. It >> adds $150-200 to the end cost to get an external ATU. It might add $50-75 >> to make the internal ATU wide-range. It is especially odd for an >> entry-level rig, where people are likely to be using a low-slung dipole. >> OK, it is very strange for the IC-7851, too. >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto: > [email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to > [email protected] -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Sherwood-s-receiver-performance-table-updated-tp7616652p7616743.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
