[Elecraft] Newbie needs frequency counter advice, please...

[David Steere]

Elecrafters,

Thanks to the several helpful people who replied to my query regarding a new 
ham's need for a frequency counter.  I will hold off on buying a new counter 
for the time being.  It appears that proper use of WWV's transmissions is a 
sufficiently accurate means of performing frequency calibration on the 30m 
band.  Then, after zero beating the K1 with the 10 MHz WWV signal, even a 
modest frequency counter might be useful for quickly checking the other 
three bands of the K1, assuming that a counter adjusted to read 10.0000 MHz 
will still be reasonably accurate for a minute or so while checking 7.1000, 
14.1000 and 21.1000 MHz transmissions.  To that end, I repaired an old Heath 
IB-1100 counter that I had built years ago, and have successfuly used it to 
check my K1's other bands, after first adjusting it to show the correct 
frequency of my K1 on 30m.

I do have another question about accurate frequency display, insofar as I 
need to assure myself of remaining safely within my permitted band edges 
when transmitting, but I will post this as a separate topic.

Thanks again to all who replied.





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