[Milsurplus] Frequency Measurement test

[Ray Fantini]

No matter how improbable it appears once again a picture and reference to WW2 military technology and equipment has appeared in this month's issue of QST, a magazine almost entirely consumed with pushing the modern Ham to spend all their money and time that is when not supporting the league itself in buying the latest new radio widget.  In the announcement about the annual frequency measurement test there is a little sub article and picture of the BC-221 with a write up on how that was once the state of the art in frequency measurement. They further challenge modern Hams to try using that old heterodyne technology and enter their results along with a write up about it use. So here it is, an opportunity for some of the "know it all's" out there to demonstrate their competence with the two twenty one in comparison with the state of the art Hams who will just park the cursor over the carrier on the display and write the number down from off the screen. Myself I am not quite smart enough in such matters being I will just take a signal source like a BC-221 and heterodyne it against an unknown carrier and then use a frequency counter like my old HP-5328 to read the frequency.

Ray F/KA3EKH