Tuner Genius Speculation

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Wayne Schonfeld

I am sure the technology will be more advanced than it was 3 years ago when I ordered mine.  Otherwise, I have no idea about this unit and the only thing I have been told is that there are prototypes being tested.

Bill W2PKY

I don't think there will be two tuners in one box. Depending on which slice has TX focus the tuner will probably select the correct LC settings to provide low SWR for the amp or radio. However, my concern is that the tuner be out of the signal path on receive. The problem with having a tuner inline on receive is that is can reduce the signal amplitude on bands where the tuner is not tuned for. For example when a tuner is tuned for higher bands, lower bands like 160M are usually filtered out. This may not be a problem for many users but for 6700 users that listen to multiple bands at a time this is a problem. Hopefully, the tuner will  employ a TR switch for the active path.

Ken Hansen

It's hard to imagine a dual-tuner unit would enjoy anything but smallest fraction of market share that a similarly-spec'd single-tuner unit would share. Two tuners would cost almost as much as two single tuners, leaving the average operator with twice as much tuner as needed. What I would like to see would be a unit that can be placed on either/any antenna port on a Flex Radio and be conveniently controlled from within SmartSDR as easily as the built-in tuner on current Flex radios. This would allow multi-share operators to each have their own tuner for whatever band they are operating on. Physically I'd like to see the unit be half the width of a 6400/6600 or Power Genius chassis, to allow easy stacking of two units in a rack for remote operation.

Rick N4RZ

Unless there has been a major design change from what I was told by Flex in the past it is a single tuner meant to work with either of the radio antenna outputs but not both simultaneously.    

bahillen

An update from Flex is overdue. 73 Bill

James Charlton

Burch - K4QXX

I agree.  I have reached out several times and they just say it's under development.

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