After spinning the dials on my Mighty Fine Junk 989-C for years, I gave in and got a AT-200 Pro Autotuner..... and it is "Da BomB"
Hooked it to the 897, plugged in the supplied cables, and it works great, in fact it is awesome!
Right now I have a I-10K and a Longwire up for HF and the tuner has 2 antenna inputs.
I stepped through the bands, and did a tune were I hang out at. The first time you tune it takes a few seconds of the relays buzzing, but once you have tuned it for the frequency you are going to use, the next time it will remember the setting and switch to it, one click. And its got like 16,000 memories in the thing. I am running it in auto-tune mode right now. Key up and start talking and if the SWR is above 1.7, it will retune without even touching it, even on SSB.
It sure beats cranking the knob on the MFJ.
It will not handle the power the 989 will, but for just running the radio, it has lots of headroom @ 250 watts.
So far,I am a happy camper!
73
Jeff
Hooked it to the 897, plugged in the supplied cables, and it works great, in fact it is awesome!
Right now I have a I-10K and a Longwire up for HF and the tuner has 2 antenna inputs.
I stepped through the bands, and did a tune were I hang out at. The first time you tune it takes a few seconds of the relays buzzing, but once you have tuned it for the frequency you are going to use, the next time it will remember the setting and switch to it, one click. And its got like 16,000 memories in the thing. I am running it in auto-tune mode right now. Key up and start talking and if the SWR is above 1.7, it will retune without even touching it, even on SSB.
It sure beats cranking the knob on the MFJ.
It will not handle the power the 989 will, but for just running the radio, it has lots of headroom @ 250 watts.
So far,I am a happy camper!
73
Jeff