[Milsurplus] Crystal Oscillators (AKLDGUY)

[robinson at tuberadio.com]

Hi Miles,

Digikey supplies and programs the SG8002 (1-40 mhz)

Regards
Ray

> On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, <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