[Boatanchors] Re:Torrestronics was: The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".

Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:40:04 -0500

For anyone interested in seeing one of the Torrestronics Universal frequency
counters, there was a slightly hacked up and modified one that recently sold
on the bay-place for a little over twenty bucks and the pics should still be
there.  The on-off switch doesn't look as I remember it, and the previous
owner added a switch to select AC or DC operation I guess. The consignee
referred to it as a AC/DC convertor or some such!  But you can get the idea
of what it looks like.

Some good photos of it are still displayed, at least for the time being.
You should be able to find them by searching "completed items" and keyword
"Torrestronics".  You may need to check the "title and description"
check-box.  I don't know.

73,
Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom NØJMY - AAR7FV" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".

> I don't know if they are still around, but a company called
"Torrestronics"
> made a digital readout back in the 80's for that kind of situation.  It
was
> universal, in that it had dip-switches inside that you set for your two
IF's
> and a toggle switch on the front that you switched manually when you when
> switched from the high bands to the low ones.  I had one on a SP-600.  The
> situation there is that it is double conversion on the high bands and
single
> on the lower ones.
>
> It was an attractive unit, black with green leds except for the 100 hz.
> digit which was red.  Or it might have been the other way around.  Anyway,
I
> can't remember whether it showed MHz. or not...I think not, and of course
> that shouldn't be a problem.  It was very stable with hardly any
flickering.
> It'd be worth looking for.
>
> 73,
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philip Atchley" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:42 PM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] The SX-71, it keeps getting "Gooder 'N Gooder".
>
>
> > Howdy "Hallicrafter-ites",
> > I've been doing some listening with the SX-71 that I recapped, rebuilt
and
> > repainted a couple years back.  During the last year the set has made a
> > couple of brief excursions out of the Merced area but ALWAYS "comes home
> to
> > papa".  Kind of like a Homing Pigeon in that regard.  Hey!  "Homing
BA"s,
> > what a concept.
> >
> > Anyway, I swear (actually, I don't swear) that this thing just keeps
> getting
> > "Gooder 'N Gooder" with time, kind of like fine wine or a good wife.
> > Either that or over time I just "forget" how well it plays.  (donning my
> > fire suit) Now, if it just had a digital display so that I didn't need
to
> > use a portable "spotting receiver" to make certain of the DX station I'm
> > tuned to.
> >
> > Checked out the "Freq Mite" Morse freq reader, but this thing is double
> > conversion and has different LO offsets for the low and high bands.
> >
> > 73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
> > Phil, KO6BB
> >
> > DX begins at the noise floor!
> > Merced, Central California
> > 37.18N  120.29W  CM97sh
> >
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