How about bringing back the 6U5 Tuning eye.
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From: Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Elecraft Discussion List elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] S meters
Now there's a thought :-)
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
Phillip Buckholdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
How about bringing back the 6U5 Tuning eye.
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Boy does that bring back memories! My first SW receiver, extracted from an old
upright radio/phono console in 1957, had one of those, and I'll never forget
tuning in WWV for the very first time and watching the dark center narrow down
to a slender wedge. And you could see the orange filament
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Phillip Buckholdt wrote:
How about bringing back the 6U5 Tuning eye.
Ah...great memoriesas a kid, when we spent time at the shore, the owner of
the house had one of those beautiful console floor model radiosI was a
tinkerer, and used the tuning eye to determine
An S-meter by itself is pretty useless for comparative measurements, but
it's easy to calibrate!
A simple check with a step attenuator (e.g. Elecraft AT1) in the receive
antenna line will show one how may dB/S-unit the meter indicates. With an
Elecraft XG1 (or equivalent) signal generator it's
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