I actually considered getting that since the board was fairly small but then I
decided against it. My rig has no IC's in it and I didn't feel like
modernizing it:-) I was also a bit concerned that it may generate in-band
birdies.
In the end, I cut a piece of FR-4 protoboard to the exact size that I needed
and made a mezzanine card out of it so it fits perfectly within the rig.
There is also a person who advertises on www.qth.com Since I enjoy building
things, I couldn't see spending $70 +/- for something with < $5 of parts.
Hams are cheap...I mean frugal:-)
Mike, WA1SEO
>________________________________
> From: Jerry Haigwood <jerry@w5jh.net>
>To: 'Mike Stricker' <info4mjs@yahoo.com>; 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
><tentec@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:10 PM
>Subject: RE: [TenTec] VFO Stabilizer question
>
>
>Google Cumbria Designs (an English company). They sell a huff and puff
>controller for a reasonable amount (~$46 plus shipping).
>
>Jerry W5JH
>"building something without experimenting is just solder practice"
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
>Stricker via TenTec
>Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:27 PM
>To: tentec@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] VFO Stabilizer question
>
>Hi,
>
>There are several versions of the huff-puff controller floating around with
>minor improvements as they evolved. I built one up for my Swan 100MXA,
>which I regularly use to check into the Ten Tec nets. The only issue with
>them are that you give up the use of your RIT function since that is normlly
>controlled by a varicap diode and the huff-puff compensates for the drift by
>adding or subtracting an offset voltage to that.
>
>Someone sells them for around $70 or $80 but there really is only about
>$5.00 worth of parts. I wound up using a TCXO oscillator module that I had
>instead of build the oscillator out of discretes. I found that this circuit
>makes a very nice addition to my radio.
>
>Here are a couple of links:
>
>http://www.hanssummers.com/huffpuff.html
>
>
>
>http://www.hanssummers.com/huffpuff/library.html
>
>
>Mike, WA1SEO
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