What's your opinion of this "Radio Shack" Freq. Counter

I kept one of those in my "kit" when I was in two-way radio field service. Quite handy.

Sorry, I don't go to "tinyurl"s anymore. Post the real URL if you want anything from me.

If only it were that easy.

It is, it's just that you get a really long line sometimes. So put it in a separate post.

One of those tinyurls sent me to Facebook. The chances of me getting a Facebook account are about the same as me winning the gold medal in Women's gymnastics at the Olympics. I would rather be eaten alive by a shark.

Plus there is such a thing as cut and paste.

Bottom line, though I am sure this is not foremost on people's minds, if you want me to see it you post the real URL.

I think the point was that Jeff actually wants nothing from you.

I admit to finding your whining, puling and general self-pity to be wearing. As time has gone on, your advice and suggestions are also becoming fewer and less accurate. Which leads to the question: Are you all right?

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

I downloaded the manual for this counter, and found several things that would cause me to dislike it. The max input signal level on the normal input is 1.4V, with no attenuator or sensitivity adjustment. Another issue is the lowest frequency on the wideband input is 1MHz. To get down to the low frequencies, (below 1MHz), the signal level has to be TTL or CMOS levels. The TTL input only goes to 10 MHz, in fact, the max frequency on that input is 9.9999999 MHz. There is a note in the manual about a problem when measuring signals having a varying frequency (like adjusting a signal generator). The display freezes if the signal frequency varies by 50KHz or more between readings. To fix this, you have to turn the counter off, and hold a button down while turning it back on.

In view of all this, I would avoid this unit, however, you might not have issues with the problems.

Cheers, Dave M

That's not possible. Most URLs are too long and my news provider will not allow lines that long. If I break them up, then you will have copy and paste each and every line into the header, and no one will do that. (I wont). Tinyurl is the only way I can post them.

This one is an Ebay item, those sometimes are so long that if I copy them to notepad, they are 5 lines long. (Damn near a whole paragraph).

There is a way to PREVIEW Tinyurl links.

I feel the exact same way about facebook.....

However, there is a price for everything. If someone pays me a half million dollars, I WILL get a facebook account. And for another half million, I will check it weekly for one full year.

Does anyone want to pay me?????

Until someone does, I have facebook blocked in my HOSTS file. (It takes about 35 or 40 lines to completely block it).

Facebook has ruined most of the internet. They should rename it to fecesbook!

This sounds like a huge pain. Glad I did not buy it.

Is this an auction? I'll bid $1.

Learn how to edit out the crap from an Ebay link. For instance:

can be shortened to : by trimming everything after the listing number. It can be trimmed even more, like this: by removing the description part: SIM808-GPS-GSM-GPRS-Quad-Band-Module-Shield-with-3M-Antenna-for-Arduino/ from the link so all you need is the link to Ebay, followed by /itm/ then the listing number.

All three methods will display the same item.