[ARC5] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] R-28/ARC-5

[Jack Antonio]

On 4/25/2015 7:57 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
> Octal tube sockets have been used to hold FT-243 crystals since before I was licensed in 1953, sometimes even in commercial equipment!
>

The "octal" sockets that Wayne referred to in his original post, and the 
BC-733 sockets, aren't octal. They only have 4 pins.

The R-28/ARC-5 sockets have the center hole with the clearance for the 
tab like an octal, but the BC-733 socket does not have the center hole.

Just more arcane trivia.

Then there were the dual FT-243 sockets, that in brown were used in the
BC-611, and in black, used by Motorola in countless thousands of 
Research Line and T-power 2 way radios.

Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4