[time-nuts] Has anybody checked this? GPSDO in kit

Wes wes at triconet.org
Sun Oct 23 15:24:25 UTC 2016


On 10/22/2016 9:22 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> You have to remember what this thing replaces.   In ham radio, some people
> are using vacuum tube oscillators with mechanical variable capacitor
> tuning.  Maybe some advanced rigs use gear drive on the capacitor shaft to
> allow more exact tuning  This Si chip is considerably better then 1940's
> technology.
I guess my WW-II vintage BC342 receiver (that I started with and still own) was 
"advanced".  It has an extensive gear train for tuning.

On the other hand my two Elecraft K3s are full of DDS and microprocessors but no 
variable capacitors.

Flex radios, are direct sampling SDR and newer ones offer GPS stabilization.



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