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    Best AM FM Stereo RF Generator for a Newbie

    I ended up with an HP 3325B to take care of any sweeps needed, particularly because of its x-drive output which can be fed to a scope in x-y mode which is needed for some IF alignments. Sweep time on my other devices wasn’t fast enough. It sounds like you may be able to get away with a cheap...
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    Best AM FM Stereo RF Generator for a Newbie

    The Sencore stuff and ST1000 are solid state but they are old and unless you find one that someone's already gone over, I'd plan on refurbishing/repairing it. (Capacitors, and there are a few mods to improve them, and in the case of the SG165 there's some plastic stuff that breaks, lots of great...
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    Best AM FM Stereo RF Generator for a Newbie

    I have two setups. Ended up winning a few auctions at the same time on ebay... HP 8644B signal generator (boat anchor warning) combined with an HP 8904A opt 001 for the FM Stereo portion. The HP8644B is supposed to be the lowest noise generator HP made (well, not sure about the new crazy...
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    Phase Linear 4000 Rebuild - are these quirks normal?

    Thanks, yeah I ended up buying an entire set of those exact jacks from someone on ebay a few weeks ago and that did indeed resolve that problem. But man those are dirt cheap! I wish i knew about that site! ended up paying $60 or so for the ebay ones.
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    Phase Linear 4000 Rebuild - are these quirks normal?

    Hey all, I'm working on a Phase Linear 4000 preamp for a friend of mine. It needed a recap and several cold solder joints repaired. I've completed that, and it's working great except for a few quirks. As I don't have another one here to compare to, I'm trying to determine if these are normal, or...
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