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KR4DIO

Can anyone help identify the device in the upper left of this photo? It looks similar to the SB-620 Scanalyzer, but doesn't have enough knobs. The panel is also a different green to the rest of my SB-series equipment.

Photo of a Heathkit SB-610 station monitor, SB-102 transceiver, and an unknown device
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James - N2ADV

@kr4dio it almost looks like someone took components from a SB-620 and created something custom out of it.

KR4DIO

@N2ADV Looking over the circuit, that's exactly what happened. Half of me wants to power it up and see what happens; the other half wants to toss the guts in the parts bin and use the shell for my original idea: an SDR-based panadapter for my SB-102 station

Photo of the interior of an old piece of ham radio equipment with vacuum tubes
Photo of the interior of an old piece of ham radio equipment with point to point wiring
James - N2ADV

@kr4dio I have similar thoughts about my SB-320… it’s set up for the wrong IF so it won’t work with my 102 and I’ve been kicking around a similar idea.

KR4DIO

@N2ADV I've ordered a small LCD display to mount behind the original CRT bezel, and will use a raspberry pi + RTL-SDR to drive it. Since I don't need so many knobs, I also plan to put in a frequency display and GMT clock. Maybe numitrons or maybe just LED

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