[AMRadio] FT-243 Crystal Needed

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

More typical than the exception ..... sadly.

Don W4DNR



Quoting Mark <lexnonscripta at usa.com>:

> Thank You Dick Bash.
>
> On 7/6/2020 5:39 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> 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
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