[CQ-Contest] wtb, quick rx checker

K1TTT K1TTT at ARRL.NET
Fri Jan 23 10:51:48 EST 2009


Is there a simple tool out there that generates a 'relatively' stable signal
that could be used for a quick check of receiver sensitivity?  Not a lab
type instrument, but something handheld that could be plugged in to a
receiver and generate switchable s1/s9/s9+20db type power levels from 160m
to 10m.  I have had a couple cases recently when I would turn on a radio and
it just seemed hard of hearing, but not dead... twice I have found bad
roofing filters, but one I have now that doesn't seem to be the problem.
But the only way I have to test it are some old relatively unstable
generators or just T it in with another 'assumed' good radio and compare
received signals.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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