Real Radios are the old tube type analog Radios.They have knobs and
analog dials on them.They DX much better than anything else.The have
character and chirisma that NO digital/transistor so-called ''radio''
can ever touch.
cuhulin

See if Radio Shack (or some such stores) sell wireless frequency
counters.You can use them (wirelessy) with any radios,,, providing they
count low enough and or high enough.
cuhulin

I wouldn't give AADE the time of day.
cuhulin

I have been to Ohio twice before,Cincinnati.1947 and 1967.Only passing
through.
cuhulin

A guy (Searcy is his last name) in our 114th Aviation Company,ammo
supply,at Tan Son Nhut in 1964 was/is from Akron,Ohio.I know a woman who
is about 59 or 60 years old who lives in Lima,Ohio.(Rosie,Roseanne Hale)
y'all can probally find her at www.pipelinenews.com (it might be a
dot org) I quit reading them bushButtKissers years ago.
cuhulin

Go buy a good electric soldering iron,get a new stainless steel brush
too.(it looks like a toothbrush) Get some pieces of scrap wire and
practice soldering.Your local area libraries probally have some books on
the subjet too.Soldering is really very simple and easy to do.Usually,I
use an old electric wood burning tool/thingy to solder,because I like it
much better.
cuhulin

Just responded to your address below using my yahoo account. . .

"HFguy" wrote in message
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How can you be contacted to discuss this further?

Lisa Simpson wrote:
No, don't really know anyone that does such, I only very recently got
into
this hobby . . .

"HFguy" wrote in message
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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

widearound the target! I would really like to have a digital freq.
display

on this unit too, but AADE does not do the actual modifications.

Everybody (except Collins receiver owners) used to have a crystal
calibrator, a little black metal box with a vacuum tube on top,
that put out a signal every 100 kHz (100 kc in those days). You'd
set the bandspread to 0 and tune the main tuning until your 100 kHz
signal was heard, the idea being that the main tuning was accurate
enough to distinguish 100 kHz frequencies so you got the right one.

Then tune with the bandspread and take the frequencies off it as
offsets from the main tuning frequencies. That is, the bandspread
does the part below 100 kHz and the main tuning does the part above
100 kHz, in the constructed frequency.

You'd either leave the receiver on, or recalibrate as it drifted,
as you use it.

If you know a station's frequency, you set the bandspread to the
100 kHz part and tune the main tuning to hear the station, and then
that calibrates the receiver instead of the crystal calibrator.

Basically listening was partly calibrating the receiver and partly
tuning for stations, if you were interested in what frequency you
were hearing.

--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

I'm at a loss as to why in the age of digital radios one would buy an
analog radio only to go to the added expense of a digital display. Why
don't you enjoy the 160 for what it is and not try to make it something
that it can never become. We all enjoy the point and click accuracy
and speed of keypads and up/down tuning keys on digital radios. The
160 will never be able to come close to competing with that. Just use
the 160 radio in the way it was designed: Scanning the bands by
listening as much as glancing at the analog scales.

Nagin is a no good piece of S..t.
cuhulin