Just because I could

I bought an assortment of electronic junk on Ebay, AGAIN, here was the first time:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-madness.html

Same seller, this assortment was a little more expensive at $26.38.  But I noticed two things in this photo that might make that extra money worthwhile:

The first was the AADE LC Meter II/B.

  This is a very well reviewed LC meter from Neil Heckt at Almost All Digital Electronics.  Sadly Neil has passed away so these LC meters aren't available anymore although people do clone them:

https://electronicsprojectsandparts.blogspot.com/2013/06/lc-meter.html

Neil was a published author and worked at Boeing, I noticed this AGC design from Electronics Designer's Casebook 2:

source: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/Electronics-Designer's-Casebook-2.pdf

The LC meter first came to my notice in Electronics Now magazine, June 1996:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/90s/1996/EN-1996-06.pdf

The shifted oscillator approach to LC metering first came to my attention in an article by Bill Carver, K6OLG, in Communications Quarterly, Winter 1993:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Communications/Communicationns-Quarterly/Communications-Quarterly-1993-04-Winter.pdf

The other item that caught my notice was this:

A 5 MHz DDS signal generator might be very handy.  Here is a summary of the signal generator specs:

source:  https://www.aetherforce.energy/product/spooky2-xm-generator/

Taken together the LC Meter and the Signal Generator are worth at least $26.38 to me so all the other junk is gravy :)  Got my fingers crossed that both instruments work !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm