In response to the original question, I found that the autotuners in both
the 3000 and the 5000 to not be as good as the 2 LDG tuners and the 2 SGC
tuners I compared them with.
While it is nice that it can cover from 6:1000 ohms (on the 5000), I was
not pleased with it's speed.
Mike va3mw
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Lee Mushel <herbe...@centurytel.net> wrote:
> I feel that Mr. Lehmann's comments are absolutely sound and, Joe, if I
> were in your position I would do exactly as he says. Actually, since I
> run both 100 watts and internal tuner and external amp with external manual
> tuner I have accidentally "stumbled upon" Hans-Joachim's thinking and
> experience no problems since I, too, am not a contester and have been able
> to manually tune things since 1959!
>
> 73
>
> Lee K9WRU
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Joachim Lehmann" <df...@gmx.de>
> To: "'Flexradio'" <flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 5:01 AM
> Subject: [Flexradio] Tuner Question for Flex-5000
>
>
>
> Dear Joe,
>> if you are definitely sure you wouldn't ever need any other radio
>> and any higher power than your 100 W, the internal tuner could be
>> a good choice.
>> If you are seeing changes of radio or power even only in the
>> distant future, an external tuner is first choice.
>> Decide yourself whether to rely on electronics but save time,
>> e.g. in contests, or to spend 5 secs more on a manual tuner
>> (and even this may be the other way around pending on device and
>> software).
>> I have used the good old Heathkit 2060 Tuner with good results
>> (keep the coil and roller in good condx),
>> the Tokyo Hi Power 2000 with better results (fixed coil connections,
>> but all bands tuneable) and the manual Palstar 5K to perhaps better
>> results (just new - no experience yet).
>> The advertising on Palstar is overdoing a bit.
>> For example the Hi Power 2000 has ball bearings for his axles
>> but not so on the Palstar ("American workmanship" I read in advertisings).
>> Don't go for the old Daiwa 1000 and 2000 semi"automatics".
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>> 73 de Hans DF5HL
>>
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