[Boatanchors] WANTED: FT-243 Crystal for 7160 khz

[Nick England]

I just found a 7161 kc in the parts bin and let Lee know he can have it.
It is kc, not khz - they never made khz in FT-243 style did they? :-)
A little capacitance or a small pencil mark or dot of Sharpie ought to
do the trick
Cheers,
Nick K4NYW

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:26 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I learned a trick from Bry:
> If you have an FT-243 higher in freq- say, 7170 KC, you can carefully mark
> one side of the crystal blank with a Sharpie
> marker and it will move it down in frequency nicely.
> You can move it quite a few KC.
> You have to be careful- a little at a time.  Draw a diag. line
> half way from one corner to the other.  See how much that
> moved it and add accordingly.  If you go too far, clean some off with a
> Q-tip and alcohol.  I've "penned-down" several
> and they work well.
>
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