[MRCA] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

I agree. I call it the "Rosebud" effect. Remember Citizen Caine?


Like many hams of my era I started out with a Command set transmitter (don't remember which model and a BC-453 beacon receiver with a 40 meter converter. This price was right and it had good frequency stability.

I also was attracted to the black box Avionics look. I also like to operate portable so I built a small transmitter to compliment the BC-453.

Now 40 years later, when I buy a mil surplus. commercial or Amateur rig I always prefer the small black box style radios over those large boatanchors or desktop rigs with a million controls.  When I analyze my operating style I realize I am trying to recreate the experiences of my youth or the adventures I read about in books.

As I tell my wife it stimulates the brain and make me more effective at work. She doesn't believe a word of it.


Mike N2MS



 

> On April 13, 2017 at 10:25 AM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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>     Has nothing to do with functionality or use, between work and shop at home have tons of test equipment that’s wider range, more accurate and smaller.  At the end of the day looking at this in terms of functionality proves it’s pointless! The problem is we collect this stuff because the way it makes us feel or for some weird reason about it bringing back our youth or for its technical historical significance (that may be a bit of a stretch!) but there is some intangible quality that drives us to spend hundrets of hours and lots of money on projects that others may consider pointless, or perhaps it’s a form of mental illness?
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>     Ray F/KA3EKH
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>     From: Peter Gottlieb [mailto:kb2vtl at gmail.com]
>     Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:14 AM
>     To: W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com>
>     Cc: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; Mrca Mailing List <MRCA at mailman.qth.net>
>     Subject: Re: [MRCA] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter
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>     A prescaler can fix that. 
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>     Peter
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>     On Apr 13, 2017, at 9:56 AM, W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com mailto:w2hx at w2hx.com > wrote:
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> >         I know exactly what you mean. I saw one of these on ebay a while ago. The low frequency ultimately was what stopped me from buying one. I love anything with nixies.
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> >         From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ray Fantini
> >         Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 9:54 AM
> >         To: Mrca Mailing List; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net ; R-1051 Discussion Group
> >         Subject: [Milsurplus] FR-114 Digital Frequency Counter
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> >         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.
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> >         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.
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> >         But there it is, insanity has no limits. I want a first generation huge digital frequency counter.
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> >         Nothing happens in a vacuum, this weird desire to want a FR-114U stems from seeing one on EBay at:
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> >         http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Military-Sentinel-FR-114A-U-Digital-Nixie-Tube-Frequency-Meter-TESTED-/122368130037?hash=item1c7db57bf5:g:Xc8AAOSw2gxYrgPT
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> >         Just don’t want to pay that much money plus shipping!                       
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> >         Ray F/KA3EKH
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