[Milsurplus] USS Slater DE-766

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 21 May 2020 at 20:37, Steven Syrotynski wrote:

> Hi Ken and Bill, thank you for your advice on this, i have an RAL-7 with 
> it's power supply that i have yet to put in my shack, (must build larger 
> house next time, :) ), i went to look at it and i see that switch. I 
> will after a little cleaning fire up the one on the ship next weekend, 
> sincere thanks for everyone's help and advice,
> Steve

You are most welcome, Steve. My only complaint with my RAL/RAK was the lack of direct 
frequency readout. But after I had used them for a short period, I found the places I needed 
to be and had no more trouble.

I am almost certain one could very lightly couple a good frequency-counter to the 
regenerative detector and, with the detector oscillating, get a good readout.

You probably wouldn't see much with the detector in the non-oscillating condition though.

One thing that amazed me about the RAK is that there is no "other side of zero-beat". It 
simply isn't there. It is truly "single signal". Amazing.

I've often thought the RAK would make an excellent, although quite large (!), "Q-5er". :-)

Ken W7EKB