[Boatanchors] Central Electronics model 458 VFO

[James M. Walker]

Wow,
I must have missed the original there! Where did that all come from
and what is the real subject matter. Pardon Moi!
Jim
WB2FCN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <kongomt at yahoo.com>
To: <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:07 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Central Electronics model 458 VFO


> The Central Electronics (later known as Centronics)
> VFO was used with their model 200 (and model 100?) SSB
> transmitter.  The rig had a built in crystal
> oscillator and all the sideband generating electronics
> then the signal was mixed with the VFO to produce the
> final output.  
> 
> They also published the conversion information for the
> VFO (I have it here somewhere, "somewhere" being the
> key word) for those who wanted to do it themselves. 
> I've often questioned the term "VFO" though for
> something that produced that much signal.
> 
> This was one of the early efforts at commercial SSB
> for hams and was rather successful.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael, K3MXO
> 
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