[Hallicrafters] SX-42 alignment

[rbethman]

Most of the better signal generators actually come with one premade.  
The General Radio sig gens did, and I'm almost positive that the URM-25 
did also.

Bob - N0DGN

W4AWM at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 7/16/2003 12:53:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>victorsj at yahoo.com writes:
>
>  
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>>Can someone explain why a
>>dummy antenna would be needed for aligning a receiver
>>    
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>Basically, it helps to prevent front end overload , some antenna impedance 
>matching and provides a measure of isolation between the signal generator and 
>the receiver.
>
>73,
>
>John,  W4AWM
>  
>
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