Michael:

Correct, just pull the xtal for one of the chans and stick in a VFO
capable of covering the 10-11 meter bands, there is a plate tune and load
on the back of that rig! A handful of parts and you can homebrew a VFO...

John

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:19:44 +0000, Michael Black wrote:


"Dr.Ace - WH2T" ) writes:
Now you're talking!
Ace - WH2T


Actually, the sentence makes no sense.

You have reference crystals in recent synthesized rigs, but if you changed
it you'd end up with an odd channel spacing. Depending on if the rig uses
it for injection into a pre-mixer before the programmable divider chain,
it may alter the output frequency of the synthesizer too, but that's
just the design making double use of a crystal oscillator. At that
point it's not a "reference crystal".

But, given the age of the rig in question, if it is synthesized
it's going to be a bunch of crystals, mixed together to get different
combinations. There likely won't be one crystal to change to put
it on a new band, you'll need to change a bunch of crystals. And
in those rigs, none of the crystals would be refered to as a "reference
crystal".

Michael VE2BVW


"Jack O'Neill" wrote in message
...

Hey baby, put a 10 meter reference crystal in there and talk the world



Dr.Ace - WH2T wrote:

We don't want no stinkin CB.
Ace - WH2T