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Cat's Eye Tuner
I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios
with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
Dick, AA5VU wrote:
I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. Doesn't an S-meter perform the same function? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
Cecil Moore wrote:
Dick, AA5VU wrote: I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. Doesn't an S-meter perform the same function? Yah, but it's not as sexy... Dave N |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Dick, AA5VU wrote: I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. Doesn't an S-meter perform the same function? It depends on how you define function! To tune a dial and watch that green eye close up is ... well ... nostalgic. Takes me back to 'Gooney Boxes' [the early models]. |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
Dave wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote: Doesn't an S-meter perform the same function? It depends on how you define function! To tune a dial and watch that green eye close up is ... well ... nostalgic. So paint the S-meter needle and 60 dB over S9 a phosphorescent green color? I'm sure the display on my IC-756pro could have been programmed to simulate a "Cat's Eye Tuner". Maybe someone should notify ICOM that it should be a feature? :-) -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
Cecil Moore wrote:
Dave wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: Doesn't an S-meter perform the same function? It depends on how you define function! To tune a dial and watch that green eye close up is ... well ... nostalgic. So paint the S-meter needle and 60 dB over S9 a phosphorescent green color? I'm sure the display on my IC-756pro could have been programmed to simulate a "Cat's Eye Tuner". Maybe someone should notify ICOM that it should be a feature? :-) Cecil, did you ever own or use an original GOONEY Box? Turn the dials ... watch the green eye ... ! I don't have any meaningful tuning dials or functions on my IC-706MK IIg, IC-746 or IC-756 Pro III. |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
Dave wrote:
Cecil, did you ever own or use an original GOONEY Box? A GOONEY box was probably beyond the means of anyone in my home town. However, I remember a Philco AM/SW radio with a 6E5 tuning indicator. I never understood the difference between tuning while looking at the "cat's eye" and just tuning until it sounded the best. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
"Dick, AA5VU" wrote in message ... I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. I remember my grandparents having such a device on their big living room radio set. I also remember opening the back of a small table model radio when I was older (in my teens) and being surprised to find that one of the tubes used in it had a catseye on it. Guess they were using an old stock of tubes in the new radios and the catseye tuner was just an unneeded function of the tube they used. Harold KD5SAK |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
My recollection is that it was called Magic Eye tuning. Maybe
different manufacturers used different names. I recall listening to the hiss of CW in a BFO-less wooden box radio with the magic eye winking in time to the Morse. Looking back, it seemed like a kind of expensive gimmick in a day when squeezing maximum performance out of the minimum number of tubes was the norm. 73--Nick, WA5BDU Dick, AA5VU wrote: I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. |
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Cat's Eye Tuner
"Dick, AA5VU" wrote:
I am probably showing my age but as a kid I recall the console radios with a very cool tuning indicator called a Cat's Eye. Some things are gone forever and are missed. Too bad there is not a software version of the old cat's eye. It was a 6E5 vacuum tube. Great indicators and they were driven by the AGC voltage. -- -------------------------------------- Visit my HomePage at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv/index.html Visit my Baby Sofia website at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv4/index.htm Visit my OLDTIMERS website at http://members.shaw.ca/finkirv5/index.htm -------------------- Irv Finkleman, Grampa/Ex-Navy/Old Fart/Ham Radio VE6BP Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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