[Lowfer] Cheap up-converter kit?
Mitch Powell
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Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:18:48 -0400
> Mitch: I guess that's a real problem with stable up-converters. I was just
> playing with the numbers and it looks like a drift of only .1 Hz at 185.3k
> using my divided-down 5.18 Mhz xtal oscillator (WA exciter) equates to a
> drift of 2.8 Hz with the same xtal oscillator if used in a 5.18 MHz + .1853
> MHz up-converter. This would be almost half a screen at QRSS30.
That's pretty well what happened here Bill - I was using inexpensive 4.0
Mhz xtals - so the trace went right off the screen. I would really like to
get them stabilized - but they join a long line of other projects on the
shelf for the Fall and Winter.
Mitch