[Milsurplus] Crystal Oscillators

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 9 Apr 2019 at 11:09, k2cby at optonline.net wrote:

> 
>     I realize that custom-made traditional quartz crystals are unobtanium at any reasonable cost.
>     My eye was attracted to the wide variety of solid state programmable oscillators that were 
>     available for less than five bucks a pop.
>     They seem to have stability comparable to old fashioned quartz and cover a range from 
>     something like 10 kHz to better than 50 MHz.
>     The only problem is that they have to be programmed, and the programming hardware costs 
>     somewhere around $250 - not practical to program a couple of oscillators to serve as USB and 
>     LSB BFOs.
>     Does anybody know of a vendor who will pre-program these little bugs at the time of purchase 
>     or a programming service where I can send one to be programmed for a few bucks?
>     /Miles, K2CBY

I recently read that Mouser or someone connected with that company will do it.

Others?

Ken W7EKB