[Premium-Rx] Hagenuk RX1001

[John Reed]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Hauser" <barry at hausernet.com>
To: "Richard M. MC Clung" <sgm460122 at yahoo.com>; "Premium-RX LIST"
<premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Hagenuk RX1001


> Not sure whether most of the list members know what a chirpsounder system
> is, although most have probably heard them while listening to HF.  Here's
an
> attempt at a basic description -- Rich can correct me where I may have
gone
> off-base.
>
> The system is manufactured by Barry Research (BR Communications, now part
of
> TCI) -- not sure if there are others, however the term "chirpsounder" is
> copyrighted.

I have a chirpsounder receiver in perfect working condition - an RCS-5.  I
can tell you all about it as I use it often to see what propagation
conditions are.  It's quite an intricate piece of equipment and gives you a
visual display of the D, E and F layers in real time.  If anything is
premium, it should be.  Uncle Sam pays around $100,000 for one of these.  It
has a keyboard for entering frequencies and can be used as a normal
receiver, and it's full of microprocessors.

John Reed