[TenTec] Eagle AT slow?

[lciotti1]

Now I do not have an Eagle, but every auto tuner I have used, (LDG, and 
the internal tuner on my Yeasu FT-950) the memory tune feature you do 
not force a tune.  One the LDG it sinces the frequency and it goes to 
the last tune in memory for that frequency on the first carrier it 
receives.  On my FT-950 as I tune the VFO and the "tuner" is on, it will 
automatically change the tuner as I spin the dial.  But if I force a 
tune it will start from scratch and find a tune.

> K3GHH <mailto:k3ghh at arrl.net>
> September 7, 2014 at 6:33 PM
> 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 _______________________________________________
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