[Milsurplus] Series or Parallel Resonant Crystal Oscillator?

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Wed Jan 8 14:58:42 EST 2020


On 8 Jan 2020 at 14:35, John Poulton wrote:

> I believe this is a Colpitts oscillator, though it's drawn for maximum obscurity.  These use the 
> parallel resonance of the crystal.  C407/C408 are the impedance-splitting capacitors in the 
> feedback path.

Absolutely correct....on all counts. Good on ya.

Ken W7EKB


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