[Boatanchors] WANTED: Crystal

[Ed Swynar]

Good Morning All,

Many thanks for your taking the time to read this...

I'm currently collecting the parts needed to build the "T-9'er" hybrid CW transmitter, which was featured in the October 1971 (pp. 15-21) issue of QST magazine (see also the 1975 edition of the ARRL HANDBOOK). Mine will be strictly a mono-band 160-meter version, however, and I hope to incorporate flexibility into mine, such that it might readily use either 6146's (per the original write-up), OR 807's...

Anyway, the design uses a heterodyning scheme, i.e. a 5-MHz VFO mixing with a 7.0-MHz crystal, to produce output on Topband --- and here's where I need the help: does anyone reading this have a 7.000-MHz crystal (EXACTLY 7.000-MHz) stashed away & now long-forgotten in ye olde junque boxxe, that is currently collecting dust...? The case/holder type is of no particular consequence.

If so, what might you want for it in terms of either $$$, or trading fodder...?

Please advise, with my thanks in advance...!

~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ