[Elecraft] Which ONE rig would I buy - BUT somewhat off topic

[Tony Estep]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> If you are able to achieve a linear 1 dial division equals 1 kHz
>  calibration for that dial, please let me know what capacitor you used...

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Naw, that's not what I meant. I just loved the cool way the dial itself
worked and looked. I'm not thinking of anything that has capacitors or a
VFO, or in fact generates any RF at all. I'm just thinking about that
display. What I'm imagining is that some demented genius could take a
modern receiver with a rotary encoder, and program a control program with a
visual dial display that gave the digitally computed readout but showed it
on a virtual version of the old HRO dial with the numbers peeping through
the rectangles. Actually not that hard to do with one of the control
programs like HRD, but it would take a certain obsessive sort of hacker
(not me) to want to undertake it.

Tony KT0NY



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