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Old 04-20-2020, 11:07 AM
vortalexfan vortalexfan is offline
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Originally Posted by Notimetolooz View Post
Oh my. You need to sharpen your ebay skills.
Search on "frequency counter", select "pre-owned" and something like a max of $ 50. I saw at least half a dozen decent ones, even a HP or two. Out of those you have to look at the shipping costs and add that to find a total below $100. Some of the remaining have technical factors like a minimum of 20 MHz that disqualifies them. That might only bring it down to one or two or so. But if none look right you may have to try again in a couple of days.
You want to get one that covers the frequency range you will be working with, for broadcast AM maybe 10Hz to 2 MHz, Shortwave 10Hz to 25MHz, FM 10Hz to 120 MHz or TV 10Hz to 250 MHz. BNC input connector. You may have to do some research, you definitely want one with a crystal timebase oscillator, usually 10MHz. Hopefully you will have the time to run it past the forum for opinions.
Well I don't use eBay on a regular basis which is why I'm a little rusty with my eBay skills.

I'll search again using the tips you suggested and see what I come up with.

Thanks so much for your help.
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