[Boatanchors] SDR unit

[Bill Cromwell]

On 03/21/2014 10:28 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
> ---snip------
> Absolutely right.   I find myself in awe of innovators like Wes Schum 
> and Tony Vitale every time I work on a phasing type SSB exciter and 
> realize that they were able to do with WWII surplus hardware what now 
> takes a bazillion transistors and unfathomable quantities of ones and 
> zeros to accomplish!   Perhaps the ultimate irony (or compliment) is 
> when I use the capabilities of a modern "throwaway" SDR to align a 
> 1950s era transmitter.
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
Hi Bob,

Here is where I come into the thread. I have been stitching and gluing 
old gear and new gear together (including soundcard software with 1933 
radios and using them as bench equipment. A good example was spotting 
the timebase in my frequency counter against WWV at 10 mc by watching 
the timebase oscillator crawl up the sides of the WWV pip on the screen. 
A very graphic (and cheap) demonstration of "zero beat". It's all good.

73,

Bill  KU8H