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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Oscillators with extra-large frequency ranges
Message-ID: <4733@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 91 00:33:12 GMT
References: <MLUKKA.90Dec29181404@kannel.lut.fi> <6560003@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM> <44553@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <44553@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>   >> For a certain project, I would need an oscillator with digital,
>   >> LOGARITHMIC adjusting (32-bit, 1000 x log) and a HUGE range,
>   >> 1 kHz to 100 MHz. Is this at all possible?

I just bought a little pocket receiver, the ICOM R1.  It is a triple
superhet with tuning range from 100Khz to 1300 Mhz, in .5k increments.
Works fine -- but I don't know what's inside it.