I restore old vintage cb radios as a hobby. I don’t make any money doing so. It’s pure hobby. Sometimes I resell them if I already have one in my collection. But I would like to be able to get to the point of being able to do my own alignments, or get things very close. Right now my bench is equipmentless except a soldering station and some tools. I thought I would start by doing receiver alignments. I have a vintage cobra 142 here that has very poor receive.
After googling countless threads (many on here) it seems that is it not suggested to use a cheap rf gererator off eBay, as I need a steady signal with the ability to inject a 1khz tone. I have seen mention of using a vintage HP model made in the 1980s, these seem to be well over $400 on eBay. But I see little mention of anything else. Is there anything out there that would work for my application that only costs around $100 to $200? Or less lol. I just shudder at the thought of paying so much for something old and used that is a crapshoot at best on wether it works or not.
I see new Chinese generators that go as low as 100 kHz. But nothing that would work for me. I would be very happy if someone could say “look for xxxxx or xxxx will work”.
Thanks
After googling countless threads (many on here) it seems that is it not suggested to use a cheap rf gererator off eBay, as I need a steady signal with the ability to inject a 1khz tone. I have seen mention of using a vintage HP model made in the 1980s, these seem to be well over $400 on eBay. But I see little mention of anything else. Is there anything out there that would work for my application that only costs around $100 to $200? Or less lol. I just shudder at the thought of paying so much for something old and used that is a crapshoot at best on wether it works or not.
I see new Chinese generators that go as low as 100 kHz. But nothing that would work for me. I would be very happy if someone could say “look for xxxxx or xxxx will work”.
Thanks