[minima] Re: OT: Tuning - It's been done before!
- From: "Steve VK2SJA" <vk2sja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:18:08 +1100
Again just out of general interest...
I only just discovered that some of the more modern Yaesu rigs seem to
offer Minima style tuning in *addition* to the VFO via a ring control that
sits behind the VFO knob. So it appears that Yaesu sees some advantage in
having both tuning methods available.
73, Steve.
"Shuttle-Jog Quick Tuning Aid
First introduced on Yaesu's FT-1000MP transceiver, the Shuttle-Jog
Tuning Ring provides rapid frequency change by its unique
spring-loaded design. Rotating the Shuttle-Jog ring slightly to the
left or right begins manual scanning to lower or higher frequencies,
respectively; lean the ring further, and the scanning rate increases!"
> That's kind of funny. It didn't seem like such a way out idea to tune that
> way but I'd never seen it on a radio.
> Can you imagine how expensive encoders were then?
>
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> 73
> Dan -- KB9JLO
> https://sites.google.com/site/on30ng/
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> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Steve VK2SJA <vk2sja@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Just out of general interest.
>>
>> Went to a ham-fest today.
>>
>> Saw for the first time a Swan(/Cubic) Astro 150A. Nice, cute, solid,
>> simple. Late 1970's apparently. Got quite a surprise when I discovered
>> that the main tuning dial was a pot!
>>
>> It tunes the same as the Minima!!
>>
>> It almost followed me home. But I have too many radios already ;-)
>>
>> http://www.qsl.net/k9gdt/radio/cubic/150a.htm
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>> 73, Steve.
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