[TenTec] Orion Questions

[Robert Higgins]

Thinking seriously about an Orion and want to pick the collective brain of this reflector. You may be hearing more from me as time goes along. Anyway, for starters, is the optional antenna tuner a "memory" tuner, or do you have to tune every time you change bands, or go from low in the cw portion to high in the phone portion of the same band? Also, does the optional antenna tuner work only with antenna "A"? I currently have a Mark V and its auto tuner has memory, so it returns to the tuned setting when I change bands. It also tunes both the A and B antennas. So if I start on 40 meter cw on antenna A the tuner adjusts to the memory setting for that frequency and antenna. If I then switch to 20 meter phone on antenna B, the tuner recalls the setting for that frequency on that antenna and I'm ready to transmit without retuning. Does the Orion operate differently?

Tnx es 73
Bob K4LW