[ARC5] Octal Crystals

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

FT-243 crystals fit perfectly into octal tube sockets
using alternate pins.  You can use one socket for
two crystals that way!
 
Back in "the day" octal sockets were far cheaper and
easier to find in non-metropolitan areas than the nice
and pretty ceramic crystal sockets that Millen made!
 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
(Since 30 Nov 53)
Oklahoma City, OK


> From: releazer at earthlink.net
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:55:15 -0400
> Subject: [ARC5] Octal Crystals
> 
> Thanks for the info on the octal socket crystals, Robert. I never would have guessed! And that brings up something else I was wondering about.
> 
> On more than one occasion I have seen a non-octal crystal plugged into an octal crystal socket. The first time I assumed someone had kludged the set (I think it was in a BC-221) but I recently acquired a very nice essentially unmodded BC-652-A that has a crystal for the calibrator plugged in the same way. Was this a normal approach, a "legal option" as an alternative to an octal holder crystal?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wayne WB5WSV