I had a variety of wire and "experimental" antennas fed to a remote switch
then down to the manual tuner in the shack. With the bands being what they
have been lately, I was doing a lot of band hopping which required a lot of
knob twiddling. I have since purchased an Icom AH-4 remote tuner (to go
with my IC718) and installed a 75 foot loop in the attic with the AH-4 at
the feed point. Using the cable that went to the antenna switch, I now just
press a button on the rig and the tuner has a better then 1.5:1 match in
less then 2 seconds. Much easier. Your mileage may vary........

Tom - AC9TS



"Bill Brannick" wrote in message
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I was wondering, aside from the obvious , what the trade-offs might be
between a moderately priced manual tuner (example: Palstar AT1KM) and
a auto tuner such as the LDG AT-100 Pro or the soon to be released
AT-200 Pro

I guess it is obvious that you have more control with the manual tuner
and are more likely to achieve a match with minimal inductance..(or
losses)

Not famliar enough with these auto tuners to know if that try to
replicate a low-loss match that you can genarally achieve with a
manual tuner or not.....

Would appreciate any helpful comments