"Uwe" wrote in message
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Paul, how interesting, I just had Wes Haywards book in hand the other day
at
a local hamfest. I own the Solid State Design Book and had considered
Radio
Frequency Design but found that one rather technical. But "Experimental
Methods in RF Design" caught my eye but also caught me at the end of the
day
without the necessary $50 to take it home.

Yes, I'm resisting spending the money, too. I can buy a lotta parts with 50
bucks.

And somehow tubes, which seem to deal with electrons on a macroscopic,
nearly mechanical level seem to be a bit more accessible than transistors
which I think deal with all this on an atomic level.

Electrons don't know where they are, tube or semiconductor, it's all the
same to them. Study the intro chapters in the Handbook and SSD and do some
experiments and it wil start to make sense.

But one solution immediately leads to the next problem, how do I know
where
I am. What do they call them, frequency counters???

Uwe, if you don't know where you are, you are asking on the wrong newsgroup.
:

If you're only moving 2 kHz and you're well inside the band, it really
doesn't matter. You have a digital display on your receiver, so you should
be able to kluge something together that will let you zero beat the other
station.

Be careful with those little crystals. They won't take a lot of current,
not as much as one in an FT-243 holder. You could pop it. You'll hear it
click when it blows. Why not build a VFO from SSD?

73,

"PM"