On 01/30/2011 05:02 PM, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

On 1/27/2011 11:17 AM, dave wrote:

Old TVs have 40 meter crystals.

On 01/27/2011 02:57 PM, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

Huh? Possibly a typo?

The -fundamental- frequency TV color burst crystals is 3.579545
MHz, *80* meters.

On 1/28/2011 1:01 PM, dave wrote:

That's what I meant. Not thinking clearly. Got the real flu. Very
feverish yesterday. Yes. 80 the cloudheater band

Well, don't be too harsh about 80. I worked an Indonesian on 80 CW one
morning and when I got his QSL, I was shocked (shocked, I say) to see
that he said he was running 10 watts!


People have good results with screwdrivers, I may build one for the roof...