Signal Shifter - help, please.

Kenneth D. Grimm grimm at LYNCHBURG.NET
Sun Nov 28 23:37:07 EST 1999


N5AIT Allan Stephens wrote:
>
> Gang:
>
>      Following an excellent family Thanksgiving (number a bit down:
> only 23 this year) I headed over to Evansville, IN, for the Saturday
> hamfest.  Beautiful day, but not much "stuff."  I had mainly parts
> and pieces (and sold a few), plus a Signal Shifter which received
> a couple of curious looks but little else.  There was a beautiful
> S-40A there (asking $100, did not sell) and a few surplus pieces
> of test equipment - a few transceivers (TR-3's and TR-4's, a
> couple of Swans) and that was pretty much all of the older stuff.
> Bunch of computer pieces, of course -- now seeing computers go where
> the BA's first went when the solid state stuff was coming out...
>
>      Anyway, I brought the Signal Shifter home, and on the way
> decided to lay the healing hands upon it.  Problem: "manual"
> and schematic I have are for the most recent one, the one with
> the turret-tuner band changing thingy <--(technical term).  So
> if anyone can help me with info on the second variant of the
> Signal Shifter (the one with the dial left blank for the owner
> to mark the frequencies on; plug-in coils).  I have a set of
> three coils installed and do not know for what frequency range
> they are (any help on this?)
>
>      And hope y'all have much to be thankful for.  I sure do!
>
>      73,  Al  N5AIT
>   modsteph at acs.eku.edu

Hello Al,

Sorry can't help with the coils, but am happy to report that the older
version Signal Shifter manual is available for downloading from
http://bama.sbc.edu

73 and good luck with the Signal Shifter,
--
Ken K4XL
grimm at lynchburg.net
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