I've never had one of these, but on 10M and 6M, whether FM, or USB, the DX-70TH sounds pretty good out there. Most of the contactees I've worked had these rigs in the mobile. I don't know what these sound like on AM, yet, but I had no problem copying either local, or DX stations, working from the road with these. That LDG AL-100 is a great complement to that rig. Where other tuners fail to tune up on the new 60M band, this tuner will, nicely. It's better than the built-in tuner in my Kenwood TS-2000X. Oh, and you can use a 4W CB rig to tune up an antenna for 27MHz. It works! This tuner also seemed to tune up 160M better than some others I've tried, just be sure that you have a damn good Earth GND. As a combo, not a bad deal, and prior to 2010, I would have snatched it up. Hi-hi....