[Boatanchors] SWAN

[Rob Atkinson]

It's remarkably stable after warm up.  The later Globe V10 is pretty
good too.  Once it warms up  it may drift 50 cycles or so every hour
or two.  I can live with that.  I have a frequency counter on mine all
the time so I know.

Rob
K5UJ

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:44 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I built a WRL 755 VFO from the kit somewhere around 1958 to replace a
> Heathkit VF-1.  It appeared to be very stable after a fairly short warmup.
> I ran it into the rig I had built using a 6AG7 Pierce oscillator to a pair
> of 807s, modulated by a pair of 1625s.  I frequently zero-beated SSB QSOs at
> the top end of 75 meters and joined in for fairly long chats until one of
> them would tune off and find my carrier.  I'd say that was pretty good
> stability!