[Motorola] Luggie Talkie

[Gene Smar]

From: Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net>
Date: 2008/03/19 Wed PM 11:34:57 CDT
To: Discussion of equipment manufactured by Motorola <motorola at mailman.qth.net>, 
	Richard Schumann <richardschumann at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [Motorola] Luggie Talkie

Richard:

     I recall when I was in elementary school reading in a monthly mag for kids a story of how some young Ham operators changed the resonant freqs of the crystals in the radio they were using.  The crystals were mounted in enterable holders, possibly FT-245's.  

     The kids rubbed pencil lead on the crystal face to lower the freq a bit, then reassembled the holders to test.  To raise the freqs, they gently rubbed the crystal across a piece of fine grit sandpaper a few times, rinsed it in alcohol, then reassembled.

     Since then I've read in several Ham sources about changing the nominal freqs of such crystals in similar manner.  I have never done this myself, but it sounds doable.  The trick is the crystal holders have to be the ones that are screwed closed, not crimped like most crystals from ICM, Bomar, etc.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F



From: Richard Schumann <richardschumann at comcast.net>
Date: 2008/03/19 Wed PM 11:34:57 CDT
To: Discussion of equipment manufactured by Motorola <motorola at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Motorola] Luggie Talkie

Sooooo, I wonder what it would take to add mass to the existing xtals to 
bring them into the ham bands....hmmmm.  Don't need the old xtals anyhoo.

Richard kn7sfz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of equipment manufactured by Motorola" 
<motorola at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Motorola] Luggie Talkie


>I checked with Bomar several months ago about a
> crystal.  It seems that they have a minimum order of
> $50 these days (which is not evident on their
> webpage).
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> International does not have a minimum order.  The last
> things I ordered from International (several months
> ago) had like a $5.00 total shipping charge.
>
> Glen, K9STH
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>
> --- Gary Chatters <gcarlistaa at garychatters.com> wrote:
>
> That is interesting.  From the Bomar web page at:
> http://www.bomarcrystal.com/land_mobile.html
>
> "LAND MOBILE CRYSTALS"
>
> "All makes and models, most crystals $10.00 each, 3
> week production Two week and 72 hour priority service
> available"
>
> Perhaps the "Luggie Talkies" are not included in
> "most".
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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