[ARC5] Octal Crystals

[Gene Smar]

Gents:

My Knightkit T-60 Novice transmitter ca. 1965 also used an octal socket as a 
single crystal and VFO input jacks.


73 de
Gene Smar AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: <gzook at yahoo.com>; "ARC-5 Mail List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; 
<releazer at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:15 AM
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
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> 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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