[Milsurplus] BC-1335 Crystal

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For more than you ever wanted to know about crystal history and WW2  
production see:

<http://www.ieee-uffc.org/main/history.asp?file=bottom>

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:08 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:

> Hue,
>
> I believe it had more to do with the state of the technology.
>
> By the Second World War vacuum tube technology was a mature  
> technology. The manufacturers could product reliable vacuum tubes in  
> quantity so special shipping was not required. Crystal technology  
> was still in it's infancy. Reliability was not that good and the  
> failure mechanisms were not well understood. To be on the safe side  
> I assume that they would ship them in dehydration packs.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
> <snip>
>
>> Which also makes me think, a nation that could
>> dehydration pack individual crystals, must have
>> had an industrial plant in pretty good shape. Which
>> also made me think of how the Wehrmacht supplied
>> their common tubes: in boxes of 50, each tube just one
>> slot in the overall cardboard box. Like ammo.
>> -Hue Miller
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