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]>
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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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