[Collins] KWM2A receive alignment - USB/LSB

[Gerald]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:15 -0500, Steve Garwood wrote:
>  
> Thank-you for all of the replies on this question!  I have now checked the
> crystals with an Optoelectronics 3000Aplus frequency counter.

> Both crystals measured a little bit off from the marked frequency.

> Y17 456.350 KHz measured 456.3823 KHz  (+.0323)

> Y16 453.650 KHz measured 453.6553 KHz  (+.0053)

> 
> I don't have any information reference +/- tolerances, but I would imagine
> it would only take a small difference in frequency to make an audible
> difference between sidebands.
> 
> Looks like crystals would be in order - Inrad looks like a good deal at
> $35.00 per pair.

> Steve Garwood, N0CZV
> 
> Attica, OH

Those are pretty small errors. You might try 10 pf across the crystal
with the 32 Hz error. 

Have you checked the response curve of the filter? Having a slope to the
passband would give the same audible result.

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73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Advisor to the CRA
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