[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Frequency Measurement test

[Moe Fretz]

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Well put Ray.​


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Moe Fretz
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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