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    Frequency accuracy

    Dave, please read my posting three down from the pictures in which I explain that the picture was taken from the ebay listing for my meter. Mine is identical to that one but is not that actual one. The purpose of the pictures was to show the TYPES of meters I have been using...... just in case...
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    Rich, thank you so much for your clear and patient explanation. As I read it I realised just how much I had forgotten in the years since I was doing this kind of thing! However, untill you mentioned it in an earlier reply, I had not heard of "zero beating" and after a little googling I had...
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    Frequency accuracy

    Duke, thanks for your suggestion, I will see if I can make that work. The second picture is not of my actual frequency counter. The picture was taken from the ad on ebay so the small handheld and the readings in the picture were simply a part of the advertisement. I sent off for and...
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    Harald, thanks for your suggestion........ I have now tried the DCF77 signal and it was audible over quite a wide band. However it was loudest at around 78.3Kcs on the transceiver's display. This would suggest that my transceiver is receiving about 0.800Kcs lower than it says on the dial and...
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    Frequency accuracy

    Gentlemen, thank you again for taking the trouble to reply...... Richard, as I understand "zero beating", I would need some kind of oscillator and I don't have one. I have scanned around the AM stations and found several but the 718 seems to receive each station at anything up to 4Kcs either...
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    Frequency accuracy

    Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately it seems there are no longer any Standard Frequency Transmissions in Europe and so far I have not been able to receive WWV. Martin, in the article you pointed me to they seem to suggest that 3Khz is the maximum acceptable error. Richard, I will heed your...
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    Frequency accuracy

    Hi Folks, I am new to the forum and though I do have a Ham licence, my knowledge of electronics and amatuer radio is pretty sketchy. I have recently dug out an old Icom 718 which has been in storage for some years. I have two quite different frequency meters and I find that on 14MHz the...
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