[BC] Silly engineer tricks

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

The Heathkit audio generators were very stable. Furthermore, I'm sure that the radios of those days didn't require accuracy in a pilot tone. The stereo lamp would probably light even if the pilot was 100 Hz off. Remember that the idea make it seem that the station was transmitting stereo, i.e., illuminate that #47 pilot light (no LEDs in those days).

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Tonne" <tonne at comcast.net>

Richard wrote:

> Cheap solution: Buy a Heathkit solid-state audio 
> generator,
> bridge it across the program line, and feed 10 percent
> modulation of 19 kHz. There were literally hundreds of 
> such
> lash-ups in New England

With 2 cycle/second frequency tolerance ???   (This was in
"pre-Hz" days.)