I had 1 of those radios about 10 years ago, I remember that now that you
mention it, it was ar the right end of the switches on the left hand side of
the tuning dial.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: TS-120
> yep, i had an FT101E that had a switch on it...seems to me it was on the
> right end of a row of toggle switches, and flipping it up would turn the
> chrystal calibrator on. Of course, I didn't know what it was at the time,
> but I do now.
> Unfortunately, I new nothing of ham rigs back then, and had the external
> VFO
> with the radio as well...i remember switching to the external VFO by
> accident and picking up stuff and having no idea how I got to that
> frequency.
> I wish I still had that radio.
> Although you can get the whole 101 station these days for around $300 most
> places.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:57 AM
> Subject: Re: TS-120
>
>
>> 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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