Never tried it but a Selective Level Meter aka HP 3586A/B/C ?

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts
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> I'm considering taking a shot at the next ARRL frequency measurement contest.
>
> The assumption going in is that the signal is CW, with at least a half minute 
> or so of just solid "on" at one point or another and that reception is 
> reasonably good.
>
> I've got a good TIA and excellent references, but that's the easy part, it 
> seems to me. It seems to me that what I really need to do is make a 
> synthesized heterodyne receiver that can present an accurately tuned RF band 
> pass - say, 10 kHz wide with the synthesizer set for
> 5 kHz steps - to the TIA, with some manually tunable high-pass and low-pass 
> filtering to isolate the signal of interest. If the mixer got its LO from a 
> synthesizer with a GPSDO reference, it seems to me that you could then 
> measure the frequency of the signal of interest (now an audio frequency, so 
> you can listen to it too) with the TIA (also getting the GPSDO reference) and 
> then do simple math to arrive at the actual RF frequency.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts?
>
>
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