[Milsurplus] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter

[Ray Fantini]

In researching this latest quest think I saw your post from back in 2011, at that time did not know that one day I would want one.  Just how these things go. Thought I would put this out there just in case there is another around, or who knows maybe a HP-524?

Ray F/KA3EKH
	
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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Cromwell
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:41 AM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter

well...

I had one of those for a long time. I used it and relied on it for a number of years to set adjustable tone boards. Later I used a programmable tone card with a cheap scope to set the adjustable tone cards. My monster counter then began hibernating on the shelf. I made a number of offers to give it away - free - for just the shipping or local pickup. I mentioned it in posts on this list several times. I finally gave up and salvaged some of the parts for other projects and sent some of it to scrap yard. I may still have a few bits and pieces in the junk boxes. If I stumble over them (and recognize them) I can send them along for spares if you get a counter. I wish you wanted one before I 'got rid' of mine. It still worked. I put maybe a dozen units in the space it used to occupy.

Let me know if you get one. I'll set aside any parts I may come up with in my junk boxes. I recently searched for the display tubes for another ham and I fear those are *gone* - couldn't find them. I may have passed them along to somebody earlier and forgotten about it.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 04/13/2017 09:54 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> Quite often it turns out that you want something just because you want 
> it, not for any good reason or practical purpose but just because you 
> want it. For some unknown reason I have now decided that I want a 
> FR-114U Digital Frequency Meter.
>
> For those unfamiliar with this device it's a first generation vacuum 
> tube digital frequency counter that counts up to about 1 MHz, it uses 
> something called a Trochotron beam-switch counters controlled by a 100 
> KHz time base firing a 6D4 thyratron.
>
> Think I posted something in the past about the HP-524 family of 
> counters but for now have given up on trying to locate a 524 thinking 
> that the size and space requirements may be a bit too much for the 
> current shop, keep in mind that this is being posted by someone who 
> already has a couple full size PDP-11 systems along with a ton of 
> other radios currently in the shop. Although I did sell off a 
> broadcast transmitter that I had on 160 so that provided a hole.
>
> But there it is, insanity has no limits. I want a first generation 
> huge digital frequency counter.
>
> Nothing happens in a vacuum, this weird desire to want a FR-114U stems 
> from seeing one on EBay at:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Military-Sentinel-FR-114A-U-Digital-Ni
> xie-Tube-Frequency-Meter-TESTED-/122368130037?hash=item1c7db57bf5:g:Xc
> 8AAOSw2gxYrgPT
>
> Just don't want to pay that much money plus shipping!
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
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