On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:21:37 AM UTC-6, Ian Jackson wrote:


The advent of remote tuners has been a godsend, as it obviates the need

to devise cunning methods of performing the remote adjustments. However,

I'm sure that there are now some amateurs who have the attitude "If I

sling a random length of wire in the air, and stick an auto-tuner on it,

it'll work just fine". As a result, the art of matching antennas has

become de-skilled, and we no longer need to have any idea whatsoever

about 'how things work'. Is this a 'good thing'?

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Ian

I'm not really seeing it as some mass problem. Most of the people
I know that decided to use an ATU did so because of some specific
reason. Not because they can't match an antenna to a feed line.
Myself, I find the whole topic as kind of silly. And to drag the
poor CBer's into it, even more silly.

I've never used an ATU. Ever. Nada. Zip. So what.. Does that mean
I'm extra gifted when it comes to matching antennas to feed lines?
If you all want to believe so, be my guests.. :/

I do own and use some manual tuners, but none of my everyday
antennas require them. They are used more for special setups,
portable, etc.