[Collins] WTB: 13.000mc crystal for KWS-1

Ray, W2EC [email protected]
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:33:14 -0500


Last Sunday I figured I'd try my KWS-1 on the 10 meter AM net. I'd used
it on the 10lo bandswitch position for SSB before but never had it up on
10hi for AM. When I tried to load it up I found I had very little drive
on 10hi (29.0-30.0mc range). I have plenty of drive on all the other
bands including 10lo (28.0-29.0).

I've checked and found that I'm getting almost no drive from the crystal
on the 10hi position. While all other bands are a good 1.5 volts as
called for in the manual, I barely have .1 volt on 10hi.

Everything points to a bad/weak crystal and interestingly, I checked the
date codes on the crystals. All the crystals except 40 and 10hi show a
70 or 71 date code indicating they've been changed at some time. The 40
meter crystal is a 67 so it also has been changed. The 10hi crystal is
6-55 so I'm guessing that is the sole remaining original crystal in the
KWS-1 and probably bad. 

So, does anyone have a good 13.000mc crystal? Figure as one option,
since I can't find anything else wrong, I'd try another crystal to see
if that perks things up.

73, Ray  W2EC