Do you know a tech' or ham' in your area that can do the soldering? It's
really very easy. Just make a hole in the back cover for the RCA jack
and run the coax from the jack to the oscillator circuit.

Lisa Simpson wrote:
I do not know how to solder, and my hands do not sit still well enough to
perform such exacting work; I wind up burning a circular sport 3 inches wide
around the target! I would really like to have a digital freq. display on
this unit too, but AADE does not do the actual modifications. Oh well, back
to my original idea: anyone interested in a DX-160?

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Lisa Simpson wrote:

I actually am in contact with the fellow over at AADE, thanx to a

pointer

from "lowbander". They say a modification must be made to the 160 to

allow

for a digital frequency readout to function, so I asked him how much

he'd

charge to make that mod; haven't heard back yet . . .

It's not a big deal to connect a digital frequency display to the
DX-160. It just requires a short length of coax to the main tuning
oscillator circuit. If you have the schematic I can suggest the
connection location. Do you know how to solder? You could hardwire the
display to the receiver but it would be better to install a jack (RCA
female phone jack) on the back, so you could unplug the display. This
would allow you to use it with another receiver.