[Repeater-Builder] Re: Crystals information.
Eric, I do not think that will work. The crystals are cut different due to the design differences in the elements. The Mitrek/MSR2000 channel elements are a critter all their own. Some folks have had some good success re-crystaling their own elements and some have not. Good Luck. Joe - WA7JAW --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Eric Vincent eric...@... wrote: Hello everyone, I'm wondering if I can use crystal from a UHF Micor repeater to a MSR2000? Are they operate on the same harmonic? I know the chanel element are different, I would like to swap the crystal. Thank you for your help. 73' Eric VE7YBC / VE2VXT
[Repeater-Builder] Re: Crystals Motorola etc
I don't see a connection between how long the order takes and whether or not the crystals are flawless. Knowing that a properly-made and -compensated crystal takes time, I'd shy away from a company that has a very short turnaround. Most every Crystal Company has a Red-Eye 24 hour crystal manufacturing service. Perhaps the longer turnaround time with orders at ICM is due to ICM getting a lot of new business from disgruntled customers of other crystal suppliers. I would venture to say no... They've always been the painfully slow boat. If you ever get the opportunity to tour the Bomar crystal plant, do so, and take plenty of pictures and keep careful notes. Follow a particular crystal order through the process from order-taking to shipment. Then, do the same thing at ICM. Write an article about your findings, and draw some conclusions. I am quite certain it will be interesting! We only care about a good dollar value, the end result and how long it takes. I wouldn't care if there was a Picasso on the wall at the plant as long as I get my order as promised. Bomar has never farted up one of my orders and I order a lot of crystals. Best of all the price for re-rocking my own channel elements is easily better than 3dB down from the same order with ICM. And credit where it's due... ICM has never farted up an order of mine... but again I mention the Wal Mart effect is most often the race winner. Everyone shops at Wal Mart these days don't they..? :-) cheers, s.
[Repeater-Builder] Re: crystals
Funny how all the crystal stories work out. I used to buy mostly Jan, but they couldn't seem to make a low cost UHF Crystal that didn't drift with moderate temp changes. Crystek is/was a commercial part of Jan, but I've had about the same results as using the straight Jan products. For my HF VHF crystal requirements, Jan was number one for some years... I used and still use ICM for some crystals, but they are very expensive. I've only had one bum crystal from ICM, which they offered to replace. I currently buy mostly Bomar, the cost is fair and I've not yet has a bum UHF or VHF crystal after the 300 plus purchased in the last few years. Most companies will re-rock a commercial channel element. I tend to buy the bare crystal and do it myself. So far, so good... I've not heard much good about West Crystals... their problems seem to be mostly dealing with US/Canadian Customs and shipping costs. The product might be ok, but the shipping adventure has been a nightmare for more that one member of this group. cheers, skipp Rich Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan has been very troublesome in the 25+ years I have been a ham, you hear of a lot of complaints. Bomar gave me a couple of bum crystals and then a few that drifted back in the days 2M crystal radios. I used them since they were a few towns away from me in NJ but I quit using them. In the past 5 years I have used West Crystal in Ontario 4 times and they gave me EXCELLENT FAST!!! service. I sent the element in and back came a perfect element for several Mastr II's. Since West is over the border PLEASE follow this suggestion... do not use UPS use the Postal Service it is faster cheaper and you have less hassles. Mark on the form, Amateur Radio Parts for Service and you should have no trouble. I did not do that one time and West Crystal got charged by UPS all sorts of Import and Custom fees. The other 3 times when I used the Post Office we had no problems at all. Rich Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
