[Yaesu] Progress and internal tuners

[Keith Dutson]

Actually I think it is more like profit was headed in the gutter and
something had to be done to turn this around.  Plus, few are willing to pay
for a tuner that does more than advertised.

73, Keith NM5G 

-----Original Message-----
From: yaesu-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:yaesu-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of WA3GIN @ Arlington County, VA
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:29 PM
To: John Geiger
Cc: yaesu at mailman.qth.net; icom at mailman.qth.net; yaesu at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Progress and internal tuners

less copper and caps = more profit...

John Geiger wrote:

>Many of the older radios with internal antenna tuners (TS440, FT890, 
>FT900) had great internal tuners that would match almost any coax fed 
>antennas.  Most of the current models have internal tuners that are 
>pretty poor by comparison, as they won't do much if your SWR is over 
>3:1.  So, with 10 plus years of progress, we get internal tuners that 
>are worse than before.
>
>Anyone have an idea as to what is going on here?
>
>73s John W5TD
>
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