[Amps] Alphas and antenna tuners in exciter

[Drax Felton]

Maybe because it will confuse those newer amp's auto-tuner with the rapidly
changing input match.
You'll have the two computerized tuners competing with each other causing
the amp to trip into self protection.

On that idea manual tune amps like the 76 wouldn't matter, but then again
why not get the amp's input circuitry set correctly instead of incurring the
losses in double tuning the input?

I have a manual 91b and anything the amp doesn't like, even only a minor 2:1
mismatch, happens it automatically trips off.




-----Original Message-----
From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of rick darwicki
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:36 PM
To: AMPS
Subject: [Amps] Alphas and antenna tuners in exciter

I noticed the newer Alpha amps say not to use the auto antenna tuners in
your exciter.

Does anyone know if that applies to a 76 or 78 ?