Hi Bob, Well, I must admit that it is nice to set my GPSDO driven flex5000 or flex1500 to 100 Hz wide at 50.060000 and hear the k5ab beacon 170 miles west of me. He is stable and on frequency and so am I. However, the 5000 would be close enough to put that beacon in the 100 Hz with it's normal oscillator. I'm sure the kx3 will do the same thing ...
I still have a drawer full of those 8 MHz FT243 rocks that I used to use on six meters fifty+ years ago. Every couple of kHz from 50.1 to 50.4 :) Regards, Richard W5SXD (ex K1IGY) Bob <k...@att.net> wrote: (05/01/2012 23:00) >Hi Richard, > >How much of any of the Ham Radio Hobby is truly based on any real need? > >If though I have gone to the effort of getting a GPSDO set up and running for >use with the transverters it becomes a why not make everything as stable and >accurate as I can. In my K3 I had the TCXO and when the external reference >option was available I added it. > >Your 100% correct, need was none. Want to is a whole different level. Logic, >common sense, and an engineering need are not always part of "I want". Whole >different world than when you took an 8MC rock times 18 to get to 2 meters and >then took that and tripled that for 432. Wide IF's were a plus with chirps and >drift, > >73, >Bob >K2TK > >On 5/1/2012 5:17 PM, richard allen wrote: >> Hi Ed, >> >> I could never understand why folks think its so important for the I.F. >> radio (flex1500, kx3, whatever) to have a serious need to be locked to a 10 >> MHz standard. >> >> Its the down converter that really matters and using one of n5acs nice >> little apollo boxes handles that nicely. The I.F. radio is normally within >> a few hundred Hz and that error does not multiply. It is translated >> directly to the output >> frequency by addition of the L.O. so it doesnt matter much. >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard W5SXD >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
