[Milsurplus] RAK AND RAL

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Ken Please!  yes  I need the  RAK manual! 
the  whole thing please!!!
 
ok if the calibration of the  dial is pretty close I can  deal  with a 
chart! a preexisting chart is  great!
 
even  worse though were the  3  dial trf  sets   where people kept  
logs....  I do not think  they came with  chart...
 
 
yea  a little box on to  with a digital readout  would be  WONDERFUL!
 
 
thx  Ed#
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/22/2016 10:25:52 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:

On 22  Jul 2016 at 13:07, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via Milsurp  wrote:

> Richard--- WOW!  you mean the  RAK  is  not a direct calibration?

Ha ha! :-)

NO! It has a 0-10 dial and  a 0-100 dial, and you must read the frequency 
from a chart and 
convert.  The chart is in the manual. I can send you that page from the 
manual as either  a 
PDF or as a JPG.

Once you get used to it, it is fairly easy to  use, but in my opinion, the 
only real improvement 
one could ever make to  either receiver is the conversion or addition of a 
direct-readout  dial.

Richard's suggestion of coupling a probe to the detector output  and 
connecting that to a 
frequency counter is a perfect solution, although  getting that to work 
with the RAL is more 
difficult.

At one time,  way back then, I actually bought an Eddystone 898 dial to 
attempt to add to my  
RAL-7, but never did.

Converting either receiver to a  direct-readout dial would be a formidable 
task. I never 
attempted it once  I found out how hard it would be to do.

BTW, the tuning mechanism, and  the tuning capacitor, of the RAL/RAL is 
absolutely 
beautifully  built.

Ken  W7EKB
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