"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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Tim Shoppa wrote:

The autotuners that the neighboring hams have do not have knobs. They
just have a little button you push and then relays chatter and it
either succeeded or failed. There's a little LED idiot light to tell
you that it succeeded or failed.

I myself do not understand how a piece of radio equipment does not
have knobs. Or how it has little blinky LED's but no meters.

My homebrew tuner has alligator tips for selecting the turns on the
output link, as well as plug-in link-coupled coil sets for each band
and of course knobs on the variable caps. IMHO if a tuner has plug in
coil sets and alligator clips then you know you're cooking with gas. I
was looking a a picture of a station in the 1972 ARRL handbook last
night and realized that my tuner looks almost identical to the one in
the picture (which itself was probably 20 years old in 1972).

Tim.
Tim.

Boy, I sure know how you feel. Real tuners have knobs, real radios have
hot things that glow. Real airplanes are made from tubes and cloth and
have a wheel on the tail. Real cars smoke, get 10 MPG, and burn rubber.
And real women stay home, cook, and take care of the babies. It's really
tough to be stuck in 1957. I feel your pain.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL
(Charter member, OFC)
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LOL...me too. I'm also partial to panels that have the control labels
etched into the metal and filled with white paint
--Wayne