I considered a remote tuner and did in fact use the RT-11 for a couple
of years. It worked, but it was a bit troublesome. What I am doing
now is far better.
One of the things I have learned about autotuners is that they all seem
to have a higher insertion loss than a good manual tuner. Probably
due to the toroids, fixed caps, and relays they use. Good airwound
coils and variable caps are less lossy. So using an autotuner may be
convenient, but I have seen insertion loss figures as high as 65%
under some mismatch conditions!..
I can live with my current system, and it works just great. But since
I am in the market for a new tuner, I just wanted to know if I should
go T match or balanced, as I originally stated.
Thanks for all the feedback!
Jim