[ARC5] Octal Crystals

[Robert Caponi]

For what it's worth, Bliley recomended 5 pin tube sockets for it's 2 pin BC-3 model Xtal.

73, Rob KB1PZM
 
> From: k2gkk at hotmail.com
> To: gzook at yahoo.com; arc5 at mailman.qth.net; releazer at earthlink.net
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:15:51 -0500
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Octal Crystals
> 
> 
> And the Johnson Viking Ranger also had an octal
> socket for crystals mounted behind the front panel.
> Either of two crystals could be selected by switch.
> There was originally a "plug" to cover the hole,
> but this is more often than not missing on these
> rigs by now.
> 
> 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
> Oklahoma City, OK
> 
> 
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> > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:01:02 -0700
> > From: gzook at yahoo.com
> > To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net; releazer at earthlink.net
> > Subject: Re: [ARC5] Octal Crystals
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Website: http://k9sth.com
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Robert Eleazer 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?
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