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September 25th 04, 07:36 PM

PAMNO (N2EY) wrote in message news:
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All it took for a ham to stay inside the subbands was a frequency standard of
known accuracy. This could take the form of an accurately-calibrated receiver,
transmitter or transceiver, an external frequency meter (WW2 surplus BC-221 and
LM units were relatively inexpensive in the 1960s) or a 100 kHz oscillator with
suitable dividers.

He's clueless. As usual. I could comfortably transmit CW within 200Hz
of any band edge or subband edge with my Collins 75A4 and know I was
"legal". I simply tweaked the 100Khz xtal oscillator to get it dead
on against WWV on several freqs and took it from there. The
out-of-the-box Collins PTO and linear dial with it's adjustable cursor
*is* a frequency meter and it's far more accurate than any of W2
surplus units. Not to mention being much more convenient to use.

Straight out of the 1950s ham catalogs bub . . all of it.

The A4 served me well into the early 1980s. The 75S-3B and Drake R4B
were just as accurate as the A4. I didn't own or need a synthesized
xcvr "to stay within the bands" until I bought a used Icom 2M mobile
FM rig around 1988.

Dredge up some of the results of the 1950s FMTs to really drive the
point home.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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