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davros, you will behave. you will obey. or you will be exterminated.
:P
On 28/02/2008 12:46 AM, the old scribe known as Shaun Oliver was able to
impart this pearl of wisdom:
> ah. I remember something like that on the old valve rigs I use to own. a
> 520 and a yaesu 101b. both of which I drove so hard it's a wonder they
> didn't die.
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> On 27/02/2008 11:57 PM, the old scribe known as Buddy Brannan was able
> to impart this pearl of wisdom:
>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:18 AM, Shaun Oliver wrote:
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>>> um. probably a silly question but, what does the crystal calibrator
>>> do?
>> Arrrrrrrrrgh! These young whiper snappers these days. *LOL*
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>> A crystal calibrater is a handy thing in older analog type rigs. It
>> injects a signal every (usually) 100 or 25 KC to aid in more accurate
>> tuning. So to get close, you just count heterodyns from the top or
>> bottom of the band, then dial in from there. Naturally, this is
>> somewhat more difficult, say, on 40 meters at night with all the
>> international broadcasts but still very do-able. Ironically as it
>> turns out these days, Ten-Tec had one of the best implementations of
>> this I'd ever seen. Instead of just a straight carrier type signal,
>> Ten-Tec had their calibrator switch off about twice a second so you
>> got a very distinct beep-beep sound as you tuned through it.
>>
>> Buddy, KB5ELV
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