Sorry, Cecil, that's a bit too brief for me.  Sorry, but I barely speak 
english - BCD and binary don't come very naturally.  The code I need for 28 
MHx, for example, is 1101.  How does what you describe produce that?

73, Pete N4ZR

At 10:27 AM 5/9/2008, k5nwa wrote:
>At 07:15 AM 5/9/2008, you wrote:
>
> >Another consideration might be hardware related. I am planning to use a
> >74HC147 to control the Xtall, but it only covers 0-9. I am trying to have
> >a switch control with 9 positions, but 15 and 10 will be outside the range
> >of the IC. Does anyone know of an off-the-shelf IC that does 16-to-4
> >binary encoding? I have been unsuccessful in finding one.
> >
> >73, Pete N4ZR
>
>What you need is to decode 0 through 7 and a push button for a band
>switch activator. So the 74HC147 will do fine.
>
>Three bits is to set the frequency/band
>The push button tells is to interpret the 3 bits as a band selection
>
>
>
>Cecil
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