Does anybody know how to hook up a frequency counter...i bought a cheapy chinese freq counter..put a bnc to pl259 and plugged the coax from my radio to counter??? Nothing started smoking...but had crazy frquency fluctuation
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Frequency counter hook up???
- Thread starter Flyincoyote
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do not transmit power into the counter you will fry it
do a search on the site here and you will find what you need to make the counter work
do a search on the site here and you will find what you need to make the counter work
Ok thanks..hope the counter isnt fried..i have the scematics for the radio, ill try to find the heterodyne
Take a 3-4 inch piece of solid 12 ga copper wire, wrap it 5x times around your radio's coax, and then connect each wire of the freq counter input to each end of that coil. Tape that coil to the coax with electrical tape so it doesn't get unraveled or let it move around. It will get the signal to the freq counter by the principle of INDUCTION.
Hope you didn't already fry your counter . . .
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Thanks robb. Ill try that. It was a cheapy counter anyways...but im sure it worked till i got ahold of it
Frequency counters are not all created equal.
Finding out what you have would go a long way towards figuring out the best way to make it work on your radio.
Then again, if it's the kind that should hook to the inside of the radio, it would help even more to find out what kind of radio.
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Finding out what you have would go a long way towards figuring out the best way to make it work on your radio.
Then again, if it's the kind that should hook to the inside of the radio, it would help even more to find out what kind of radio.
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