[Milsurplus] Anybody ever played with a FC141-1 CAA fixed tuned single freq HF receiver?

[STEVE JOHNSTON]

Could the crystal oscillator have a doubler or tripler after it? 

73 

Steve WD8DAS


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>   1. Anybody ever played with a FC141-1 CAA fixed tuned    single
>      freq HF receiver? (Charlie L.)
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> From: "Charlie L." <mjcal79 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Milsurplus] Anybody ever played with a FC141-1 CAA fixed
>    tuned    single freq HF receiver?
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> In the deep dark recesses of a mildewed storage room in the Greenville (SC)
> Downtown airport tower, my son retrieved and brought to me a long
> forgotten  vintage CAA FC141-1 1.6 to 10Mhz  fixed freq. receiver, destined
> for the dumpster. .  Actually found a manual on Nick's Navyradio site that
> covered several CAA receivers, and had this one in chapter 13.  It
> apparently uses solder in coil sets for different freq ranges, and the
> crystal freq is the Cf + 455KC.  It has a crystal in it, but the nameplate
> says 1241.875KC which puts it receiving far below the lowest coil set that
> starts at 1.6Mhz..  Unless somebody was listening a bit off freq to a BC
> station on 1242.33KC, that crystal might be a red herring.   Of course, the
> coil  set markings are not visible from the outside in this receiver, but
> in the manual, they show them clearly marked for Band 3 in this instance.
> 
> de W4MEC, Charlie in NC
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