[AMRadio] FT-243 Crystal Needed

[Rob Atkinson]

Over the years, this conversation has probably taken place multiple times:

Scene:  A few fat heads from the local ham club are "assisting" a
widow with her SK estate:

Mouth breather 1 (pulling open a drawer):  What are these things?
Mouth breather 2:  Oh, those are crystals.  There used to be a Novice
license and new hams had to use those with their radios for Morse
code.
MB1:  What should I do with them?
MB2:  No one uses them now, so you may as well throw the drawer into the trash.

Another fat head on the 2 meter repeater:   Did Frank have anything
worth saving over there?
MB1:  We have his FT1000D and linear.  That's about it.  He had a
bunch of tubes but they weren't anything we could recognize.  They
looked real weird and since they weren't 3-500s or anything we've seen
in linears we tossed them.   He also had a lot of little stuff that
looked like parts but it was all for high voltage and dangerous so we
threw all that out too.

Rob
K5UJ

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 9:04 PM Don Cunningham <donc at martineer.net> wrote:
>
> Anyone out there have a spare 3890 kc FT-243 crystal?  I could sure use
> one if it was available.  Will pay or trade a 3885 one for it.
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK