[Hallicrafters] Revolutionary Signal Generator

[Rob Copeland]

No Sweat Al,

However I am a techie so with that in mind I pretty much am involved with
PC's on a daily basis. I inherited a Hallicrafters Sx 28 several months ago
and I am restoring it back to original working order.  I have an old EICO
signal generator but it is a piece of junk. And I don't have the money to
buy a state of the art Fluke RF Generator. However, I do have the ability to
build an RF Generator and I thought it would be nice to share this vision
with others. My philosophy is that test equipment needs to be the best it
can be if it is to do the job well and I have noticed that there is little
to none for a New technolgy style Rf Generator that is geared up for
Aligning older equipment. With all of the digital technology around it seems
to me that there should be an easy way to do this and make affordable for
everyone.

just my two bits ;)

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Parker [mailto:anchor at ec.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:09 PM
To: Bill Gerhold; Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net; rob at v6spider.com
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Revolutionary Signal Generator


Hi guys,
    Please don't mix PC's with radios or test eqpt.  If a radio or pc of
test eqpt needs a PC, build it in, don't make it a separate piece.  Many
of us don't have a PC, or room for it, or want one, in our shack and/or
shop.
73,
Al, W8UT
resident grouch
apprentice equal opportunity annoyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gerhold" <k2wh at optonline.net>
To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] Revolutionary Signal Generator


> All kidding aside, obviously this is something you would like to do.
This
> thought just popped into my head, could you not build the hardware on a
plug
> in card with a BNC connector that would fit a slot in a PC and then
write a
> program to control the output levels, frequency, modulation etc using
the
> program.
>
> K2WH
>
> P.S.  I am neither a programmer nor a chip guy so, I cannot be any help
in
> this.  Just a thought.
>
>