Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Greg Mayman:

 JB> Hi Greg.

 JB> 04-Feb-04 08:56:00, Greg Mayman wrote to Roy J. Tellason

 GM> But I've never seen continuous tuning with a motor. OTOH why not?
 GM> 

 JB> immagine trying to control it with a remote.... the delay in
 JB> response cpould be annoying... otoh if the remote had fast and slow
 JB> buttons it could have worked...

Actually I think that thing did have an option for a remote,  though it was
probably a more expensive model.  There were some "soft touch"
buttons down on the front below the bigger,  clunkier bandswitch and other
buttons that were used to skip to the next station it could find in either
direction.  You'd just hit one and the motor would turn the knob,  tuning
the thing until it got to another station that met the sensitivity it
needed to find...

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