[TenTec] Eagle AT slow?

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

Yes, some radios do provide that the ATU will automatically track the 
transmit frequency.  In other cases, the Eagle, the ATU will activate only 
on user command of pressing TUNE.  And every time TUNE is pressed, the ATU 
routine will run.  It does store the last values for the last band used.  It 
will store parameters for each band and when returning to that band, those 
last saved parameters are automatically selected without running the TUNE 
routine.

73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lciotti1" <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2014 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Eagle AT slow?


> 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.
>>
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