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:
>>
>>> um. probably a silly question but, what does the crystal calibrator  
>>> do?
>> Arrrrrrrrrgh! These young whiper snappers these days. *LOL*
>>
>> 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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