[TenTec] Eagle AT slow?

[K3GHH]

I'd welcome some comments on the internal Eagle AT (Model 599AT).

Here's mine: On 3570 KHz, where my MFJ-269 shows the old trap doublet 
has an SWR of 2.7, the Eagle took 15 seconds to tune. Leaving it on that 
frequency, a minute or so later a second try also took 15 seconds. A 
third tune, on the same frequency another minute later, took 10 seconds.

On 40m, where the SWR is 2.1, tuning takes 7 seconds.

I know the old antenna here at the camp needs work... but that behavior 
on 80 doesn't seem right. The manual (p. 37) says the AT is "designed to 
recall the last tuned setting for a given band." Maybe I don't 
understand how that memory works, but I don't think the MFJ-293B that I 
have at home would behave like this.

--John K3GHH/2