.... and many of the Bearcat Scanners also make/made great relative strength signal generators. Consider he 10.8 IF offset and you had one heck of a "poor mans signal generator".
You could often hear the synth of the early Bearcat 210 scanners outside the building. I could hear the synth of a repeater site located Bearcat Scanner while driving up the mountain top some 2-3 miles away. cheers, skipp > "Steven Samuel Bosshard \(NU5D\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the days before the cushman ce50tg, I used an FM10CS with a > Bearcat Scanner to set pass and reject on BpBr duplexers. Be sure > and use a 50 Ohm 10 db attenuator on each port to normalize mismatch > between the duplexer port and the antenna port on the bearcat, or > the generator and the duplexer. > Also terminate the unused port. This is not a highly precise way > to do the job, but in a pinch this will work. Of course you don't > just routinely go out ant tweak cavity duplexers, this is only when > there is a reason. > Best luck, Steve NU5D >
