Picked this up at a Hamfest recently. Been playing with it this week between a 706 MarkIIG and a 133' Carolina Windom 80 longwire. The 706 is cabled up to the tuner with a CI-V connection so the tuner "tracks" and auto tunes any band I change to and also within the bands on receive. 500 memories so once I've tuned around the bands and transmit initially it's almost set and forget.
Big jumps from say 10M to 160M require 20-30 seconds for it to retune but it sure beats cranking the old manual tuner by hand! Moving from say 20M to 40M takes only a few seconds. First out in 2006 with many firmware updates since that have allowed it to do some things not originally planned for.
It only has two antenna outputs but there is available a switch with eight coaxial outputs. Details on that to follow.
Under the covers.
Built like a tank.
Might be a keeper.
This is the switch. Specs:
The CX-AUTO is a QRO-capable RF coaxial antenna switch that integrates seamlessly and automatically with the AT-AUTO and expands the AT-AUTO's singular coaxial output to 8 coaxial outputs. The CX-AUTO operates from 160-6M and will conservatively handle 1500 W CW key-down.
Once the CX-AUTO is connected to the AT-AUTO, the user's choice of any one-of-eight coaxial outputs may be automatically selected whenever the user changes bands - all done autonomously - without need for operator intervention.
The CX-AUTO may also be used to switch between multiple radios -- permitting the AT-AUTO to work with up to 8 different radios, selected via the AT-AUTO's front panel controls. Using two CX-AUTOs, one for radio selection and one for antenna selection, provides a true 8x8 matrix capability -- any 1-of-8 radios operating into any 1-of-8 antennas, all utilizing the same AT-AUTO.
Now I just need to get more antennas/radios. :)