Just remembered another plus for rock bound equipment - used to be lower power consumption (before mosfet technology) because it took less power to run a xtal osc than to run a synthesizer plus a crystal reference oscillator. Don't know if power consumption is true today, though. Steve NU5D
MCH wrote: > Which is why I specifically said "for the operating frequency" - to > eliminate the argument you just made. > > My point was that crystals are still fine for a repeater - as is > temperature stabilization - even though modern radios may not use > either. Sometimes, newer is not better. > > -- Ham Radio Spoken Here !!! EM11ma - South Mountain, Texas
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