I would like to build a frequency counter in the same box I am building my S-meter in for my 888A. (This is to help me when transmitting.) Can anyone suggest...
Hello Nick, To be perfectly honest I wouldn't wish to run a digital counter from the first local oscillator of a 888A. For a 50-year-old free-running...
There were at one time add=on devices made for various receivers which gave a digital display by reading the local oscillator, with an adjusted offset of the...
Nick, I would tend to agree with Greame's comments wrt adding a digital display. I tried coupling the first LO in my similar-vintage S.750 to one of my shack ...
Hello John, Welcome aboard! I've never quite been to Antarctica but did manage to get as far as taking my EC10 to the Falkland Islands in the mid-1980's for a...
Hi I have an 840C - it has the small valve tuning indicator that looks an exclamation mark on its side. The tuning indicator illuminates but doesn't change...
Hello Andrew, The tuning indicator on your 840C never works! It suffers from a slight design problem and even the designer, when asked, replied "Consider it...
Hello Andrew, I have noticed your problem with the DM70 in your 840C, I have also noted Graeme's comments. It is not really a design error, however the circuit...
Gentlemen: This topic started off as "888A Controls query". With great respect, and not wishing to sound heavy handed, some of us feel that this thread has...
There are many reasons for preserving antique equipment, and the possibility of a catastrophic failure of our civilisation is one of them. Where would the...
I too apologise for ignoring the subject heading, it is unfortunately a common practice on the several Groups that I belong to. It does result in some...
Gentlemen, I actually thought that I was writing a note privately to Graeme on an interesting shortwave radio development and the flaws of the internet for...
Hello from a new guy, If looking for a first IF transformer for my EC-10. This is a double-tuned PC-mount unit with taps on both the primary and secondary to...
... very ... Chinese ... anything ... Nick - I haven't downloaded / read the manual for the 888A receiver from the Site, but looking at my original copy, I can...
Hello Nick, Thanks for the mail but, like G8DLH, I find I am puzzled at your reaction to the User Handbook on the website. This consists of 11 pages of...
Hello Nick, I suggest you get together with one of the members at your local Amateur Radio Club (Swindon or Chippenham?) who I am sure would be pleased to take...
Gentlemen, I find it puzzling that you are re-replying to my original post, and your own posts, a month later. The first time around you were helpful, this...
Dear Nick, My own view is that the user instructions section of the 888a manual is minimal, but adequate. I had to take the advice in the manual, and then...
Just a quick hello from a new member. Name is Ben, G4BXD, and some will already know me. I am interested mainly in WW2 military sets, then military sets in...
Gentlemen, Concerning the "osc" control; It is for re-calibrating the set from its own built-in 100 kc/s marker, "CAL PRESS", each time you select a new band...
I intended to draw the groups attention to a almost mint condition 680/2 on ebay yesterday but it was relisted last night and sold at the buy it now price of...
Hello Ben, Welcome to the EUG and forum, Are you the guy that wrote an article on the 830 some time back in Radio Bygones? - I seem to recall the name and...
In a message dated 31/10/2007 07:41:15 GMT Standard Time, gerryohara@... writes: Hello Ben, Welcome to the EUG and forum, Are you the guy that wrote...
Ben, Yes there is a website for the museum - Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada - (http://www3.telus.net/radiomuseum/). Gerry _____ From:...
I have a spare filter unit, marked Eddystone LP3374, with two 100khz USB and LSB filters. Anyone any idea which Eddy set it was used in ? and anyone the...
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