[Boatanchors] Digital Dial for Collins Radios

Dave Brown tractorb at ihug.co.nz
Tue Aug 24 03:34:50 EDT 2010


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 Dave
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:52 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Digital Dial for Collins Radios


> Good Evening All,
>
>         I finally have finished cleaning and servicing a Collins 
> 75S-3c
> receiver. I added a full set of extra crystals for S/W and other 
> Amateur
> bands and CW Filters. Great radio, plays well, I also took the time 
> to
> build a Toroid audio filter(  Circa 1950 ) and used a 516F power 
> supply
> cabinet for a speaker enclosure. After a touch up on the alignments 
> the
> radio is set to go up on my operating area. Now for the question. 
> has
> anyone added a Digital Readout to one of these radios. I took a 
> frequency
> counter and checked the VFO output. it reads in the 2.6 Mhz range. 
> So
> will one of the inexpensive digital Kits work with this type of IF 
> set
> up.
>
>
>                                Jeff N2LXM
>                  AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
>                                AMERICAN
>                                  PATRIOT
>                  Proud Father of two US MARINES
>
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