Ham Radio Equipment
and Product Reviews Antenna Tuner Reviews
(Internal/External)
Brand
and Model number*:
LDG
YT-100 Tuner
Your
first name*:
David
Call
Sign*:
M3WPZ
Type
of equipment reveiwed- Be specific! Example Yaesu FT-107 Hf
transceiver, Hustler 4btv vertical antenna*:
LDG
YT 100 ATU for Yaesu
Your
overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor)*:
4.5
Enter
time owned or used, years/months*:
9
months
Purchased
new or used*:
New
Comments
about the equipment in your own words*:
OK,
you might have already read my review of the IT-100 tuner (seen
below), I use in my shack for my 706mk11G. I now wanted to fit
a Yaesu FT 100 that I got from a friend into my every day car.I
didn`t have an ATU so after the good experience with my Icom version
I decided to go with the LDG YT-100. To be perfectly honest the
performance is just slightly less than the previous one but of
course the tuner is under great pressure to allow me as wide a band
of Freq`s with my many Hustler whips. I suppose I should adjust the
whips to match the section of the bands I want to work but jumping
in and out of the car everytime I stray a few K`s would be a pain
and to be fair the tuner nearly always manages a match provided I
down want to work the extreme edges of the bands.So! no problems
with the working of the tuner and in general it does what it says on
the tin.I made up my own remote switch so as i can keep the radio
further away from the relays in the dashboard. Cons: The
connector to the rear of the tuner itself is like a din socket, it`s
fiddly and fragile and not of the quality you would expect from such
good equipment ( I bent some pins the first time I attempted to plug
the patch lead in) also, at the start of the instructions it tells
you to plug into the radio and nothing worked and only after reading
quite a number of pages further in the manual did I discover I
needed to plug into the pigtail rather than the radio, a point I
have brought up with LDG. So other than those two niggles it would
have scored a 5/5. If you would like to see the HF antenna setup on
the car then go to qrz.com and put in my call sign M3WPZ (it might
give you some ideas on mounting an HF antenna on a car.)
Your
email address*:
davechilvers@btinternet.com
Date
of your review:
12/09/2012
Brand
and Model number*:
LDG
IT 100 antenna tuner
Your
first name*:
David
Call
Sign*:
M3WPZ
Type
of equipment reveiwed- Be specific! Example Yaesu FT-107 Hf
transceiver, Hustler 4btv vertical antenna*:
LDG
IT-100 auto antenna tuner for Icoms.
Your
overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor)*:
5
Enter
time owned or used, years/months*:
1
year
Purchased
new or used*:
New
Comments
about the equipment in your own words*:
Being
fairly new to amateur radio sees me trying out different
configurations of antennas which inevitably means getting it wrong a
fair bit of the time. I had been using an AT 180 tuner for my
706mk11G in the shack and it did quite a decent job. I then wanted
to fit the tuner in my van to run HF with my 706mk11 which left me
without a tuner in the shack. The AT 180 is quite an expensive
solution so I looked around for an alternative and took the plunge
with the LDG tuner. Well! what a pleasant surprise, it tunes my wire
antennas as if they were all cut and designed for the bands I use.
So, after putting up my Antron 99 (mainly for 10Mtrs) I started to
flick through the bands on the Antron coupled with my 706mk11G+LDG
tuner and to my surprise was getting copies with other hams down as
far as 20Mtrs and all the higher bands up to 10Mtrs. I`m not saying
that the SWR was perfect into the Antron but was low enough to make
reasonable contacts and get good reports.So! for a lot less than the
dedicated ATU from the radio manufacturers I`m on the air with the
706mk11G and have since purchased a LDG for my Yaesu FT 100 for my
car so see my review regarding that combo.
Your
email address*:
davechilvers@btinternet.com
Date
of your review:
12/09/2012
Brand and Model number: N2VZ Turbo Tuner TM Fully automatic
screwdriver antenna controller
Your first name: John
Call Sign: K6HFD
Type of equipment reveiwed- Be specific! Example Yaesu FT-107 Hf
transceiver, Hustler 4btv vertical antenna:
Your overall rating (5 is excellent, 1 is poor): 5
Enter time owned or used, years/months: 1 month
Purchased new or used: New Purchase
Comments about the equipment in your own words:
This product does what it says! Once you get the dip switches in the
right position for your application, and you have the screwdriver antenna
setup right to begin with, it works like a charm! This one gets a 5+
for being EXCELLENT!Your email address:no post
Date of your review:08/09/2012
Mfg and model # = LDG Z-100 Autotuner Name = John, Anchorage,
AK Call = KL7JR Category type = HF Autotuner Rating = 5
Excellent Time owned = 5 years Purchased new or used? =
New Comments =
I've used several different brands of autotuners over the years,
but only use LDG now. The LDG Z-100 is inexpensive, easy to use right out
of the box, tough and small in size which fits in nicely for my portable
or mobile operations. I can honestly say the Z-100 has saved me from
burning up my finals a couple of times when I forgot to hook up the
antenna! I experiment with all types of homebrew wire and pipe antenna
designs (loops, verticals etc.)and my Z-100 easily tunes them all. The
folks at LDG are friendly and provide fast service. The Z-100 has now been
replaced by the improved Z-100 Plus (different shape and more memory). I
like the Z-100 so much that I own three of them- one for each HF station I
have. I highly recommend LDG for their wide variety of tuners which I'm
sure you will find one that works for you. Most of my antenna designs on
Hamuniverse.com used the Z-100. 73, de Yukon John, KL7JR. KL7JR@Yahoo.com
Mfg and model # = Icom AT 180 Name = Harold , Bridgeport,
WV Call = N8FXH Category type = Auto tuner Rating = 2 Fair -
There are better products out there! Time owned = 18
months Purchased new or used? = New Comments =
This capacitance of this tuner is so limited that any standing wave
over 3 to 1 can't be tuned. In other words it only tunes resonant
antennas. This is an expensive mobile tuner. It is good looking and quiet.
It should be it doesn't have to do much. For the price you would expect
better from Icom. I replaced it with the LDG IT-100 which outperforms it
beyond belief. Don't buy this tuner unless you are going to use it simply
to trim up with a resonant antenna. email = n8fxh@verizon.net
