[ARC5] Octal Crystals

[Glen Zook]

WRL, among others, used to use an octal socket for the FT-243 crystals.  The octal socket was mounted behind the panel and holes were drilled to match the .486 inch spacing of the FT-243 pins.  In fact, I believe that the spacing on the FT-243 was designed to fit the octal socket.

Glen, K9STH

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--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:

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?