Some of us in amateur radio *are* engineers, Chester. It takes a bit more
engineering ability to do the job without needing a $125,000 primary frequency
standard, or a run to a calibration shop before each measurement, and it's more
fun/challenge that way. 8^) Of course, part of engineering is knowing when the
equipment at hand isn't up to the task, as you say.
Besides, that's why I thought it was called *amateur* radio.
I think Clark has checked the specs, and both he and Ten Tec seem to think
there is a problem. He's now addressing the challenge of collecting good data
with the equipment he has at hand. IMHO, it seems he's doing all the Right
Things, from an engineering standpoint, including checking with peers and
experts when he's in unfamiliar territory.
Just my $0.02.
73 de KE3KR
Chester Alderman wrote:
> I think your an amateur trying to do an engineers job! Before you make any
> decisions about what is doing what to what, how do you know your counter does
> not drift? How do you know the accurace of your freq. counter? You checked it
> against WWV? Heck, if your going to do engineering work, take your counter to
> a qualified calibration shop and get it certified, not only for freq
> accuracy, but for it's own stability. Then and ONLY then can you draw
> conclusions about 'something' drifting. And before you go way off base and
> spend your $50 bucks because you want to play engineer, check the specs on
> your Omni 6. The Omni 6 is not a frequency standard, it is a AMATEUR radio
> piece of equipment. If you want a frequency standard, HP sell's them for only
> about $125,000.
>
> Chester Alderman
> W4BQF -- Tom
> chestert@pressroom.com
>
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Chuck Murcko
The Topsail Group, West Chester PA USA
chuck@topsail.org
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