[TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?

[Pete Smith]

The latest QST includes a lead tech article on an automatic antenna switch controller that uses a PIC and a lot of other parts on an expensive PC board to switch 5 antennas either manually or in response to band data from various transceivers.  I must be missing something, because this seems like a LOT of trouble for less capability than could be gotten from a $20 W9XT band decoder card and a few added components.  I know that there are some radios that don't provide BCD band data, but that problem is usually dealt with by running a computer program that provides the band data on an LPT port.

For this they burn 8 pages? 

73, Pete N4ZR
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