Re: FT Dx 10 Internal and externa tuner
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Thank you Don for the details. I am trying to get familiarized with the internal tuner. My fear is, frequent use of an internal tuner may give some problems?with its relays. Any way will experiment and find out the best way. Does this FT 10 tuner save the tuner control for future like the LDG tuners? 73s GD and regards VU2TE Unni
Unni,
I use both. One of my antennas can be tuned by the ftdx10's limited tuning range (3:1) and another antenna cannot, so I use an external tuner for that one. Both antennas go through the tuner. In my case it is a Palstar AT2K manual tuner. I did have an LDG AT1000ProII tuner in place but found the auto tuner would not get the SWR low enough. I had to constantly fiddle with the C and L buttons to manually tune the antenna. The AT200ProII may be able to get the SWR to a lower number than the AT1000ProII. With either tuner I sometimes put them into bypass and use the radios tuner. The external tuner usually shows a high SWR but the radio is happy so I go with it.
Bottom line is whether your antenna(s) are resonant and within range of the radios 3:1 range. If they are, use the?radio's tuner. If one is within the radio's range and one is not use the auto tuner like I did and put the antenna that is within the range of the radio? in the antenna port that can be bypassed.
-- 73, Don, NN8B "Meanwhile, with ever increasing power, the telegraph has become not only the master of commerce, but the tongue of mankind." - James D. Reid, 1886
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