[Boatanchors] BC-669 Receiver Crystal

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

What size crystal holder is that?  I have some big crystal holders but I don't remember what radio set they belong to.

WayneWB4OGM

-----Original Message-----
From: manualman at juno.com
To: n2lxm at juno.com
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, Jan 15, 2023 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] BC-669 Receiver Crystal

In desperation, you might be able to sweat the pins off and hard-wire the
crystal into the circuit.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:20:10 -0500 <n2lxm at juno.com> writes:
> Good Afternoon All,
> 
>        I am getting parts together for another winter project. I 
> picked
> up a Hallicrafters SP-44 Panadapter. Which I will go through, recap 
> and
> service. It will work with most of my Boatanchors. But the 
> Hallicrafters
> S-76 uses a 1650KC first IF. So I need to convert it to 455Kc. 
> Easily
> done with a 6BE6 and a crystal oscillator. Well digging through my
> crystal stash, I found the right crystal. But it was used in a 
> BC-669. So
> this needs a large crystal holder. I tried to see if it would fit 
> into a
> four / five pin tube socket. But to no avail.  So the question is. 
> Dose
> anyone have a socket that they can part with. I have checked the 
> crystal
> with my tube based crystal checker. It shows good activity and is 
> almost
> dead on frequency.
> 
> 
>                                                    Jeff N2LXM

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