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accordingly. Our legal department has taken legal action in the past to protect it and will
do so again when necessary. You should realize that considerable time and expense has gone
into its development. Competitors may very likely attempt to bring similar products to the
market, and in so doing attempt to circumvent much of the development costs by coping
or otherwise reverse-engineering our firmware. We therefore regret that we are unable to
divulge any of the firmware specifics.
Why should I update to the newer AT-AUTO firmware?
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Answer: You might not need to, but you will probably want to. When I started design
on the AT-AUTO , I intended that the firmware would an "evolutionary" process. I am
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attempting to provide a high-quality, effective, QRO, automatic antenna tuner. I knew
from the onset that while I had invested considerable time into the development of our
firmware, there would likely be improvements and enhanced features that I would want
to make available to customers. Additionally, if problems were later discovered and as
improved algorithms are designed, I wanted the customer to be able to take advantage of
these improvements at no additional cost.
This is the reason I included the ability to upload the firmware to the AT-AUTO .
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The design of the AT-AUTO permits continual improvement to the AT-AUTO oper-
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ation by adding new firmware features. The AT-AUTO is an evolutionary product with
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sufficient firmware flexibility to permit continued product improvement. Furthermore, since
introducing the AT-AUTO , users have requested several features that I simply did not
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anticipate, but was very happy that to meet those requests through improvements in the
firmware. If building a QRO, fully-automatic tuner were simple, others would have done so
already.
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