[HomeBrew] Pll Idea, needs sanity check

[Chris Trask]

    <<SNIP>>

>
> One alturnative which still requires a uP, but not a programmable PLL
chip,
> is to mix down the VCO frequency low enough for the uP to count it and use
a
> programmable counter inside the uP to do the divider.
>
> 70's vintage CB's often used a PLL with extra inputs for the channel
> selection which would put them into the 10M band. Might be worth trying to
> find out if this is one of them or not. It is also possible that a rig of
> that vintage uses a different mixing scheme than the more modern ones I'm
> familer with.
>

    See if this provides a solution:

    http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/Paper023.html

Chris

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