[Test-Equipment] crystal checker

[mikea]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:31:38AM -0700, Chris Trask wrote:
>      Would there be any interest in a full-blown crystal test set
> for measuring the crystal motional parameters (Rx, Lx, and Cx)? I
> had to design one of my own a year ago for testing crystals when
> I was doing some work designing crystal filters. The test set
> published by G3UUR does not measure the series-resonant frequency
> but instead loads up the holder capacitance (Cs) so that the
> parallel resonant frequency is very close to the series resonant
> frequency.

I, for one, would be _very_ interested. If there's not enough interest
for you to post it to the group files, I'd be grateful for a copy sent
to the address in the sigfile. 

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin