yeh, when you can get an old synthesized kenwood or icom mobile radio for 40 
or 50 bucks, then what is the point in spending that much on 
crystals...unless your planning on using the commercial radio in a repeater 
or something.
boat anchors, and even then, not much use for that either.
I had about 4 or 5 top of the line, in the 70's, commercial rigs, all single 
or dual channel, and I just chucked them when I moved...ripped the mike off 
for parts and maybe a few chassis components or something, but they were 
more work and money than they were worth just for a back up or secondary 
radio.
I had a marconi single channel VHF radio that was kind of cool.
it had some sort of tuning cavity right in side it to give it better 
stability on what ever frequency you had for it.
It was a huge thing...the bracket for it actually fits my ts2000 perfectly.
I kept the bracket, a nice piece of custom made aluminum in case I ever have 
the opportunity or need to mount my 2000 somewhere.
they want way too much for a mobile mounting bracket for that thing.


73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: the midland board won't work


> That's the problem with the crystal radios I have, I can get crystals
> anywhere, it's a yaesu commercial radio from the 70s and it's the typical
> crystals, not sure what they're called but they look like the standard
> uniden, regency 2 pin crystals, we've all seen them if we've dealt with
> crystals, about 3/4 of an inch by maybe an inch by 1/4 of an inch thick 
> but
> the cheapest places to get them new was 20 dollars each so to receive and
> transmit would be $40 for one channel. Now, if I could find a set of
> crystals and fill 5 channels or 7 for $40, I just might consider it, or if 
> I
> found cheap enough the crystals for the packet frequency I'm on, that's
> another story, I'd do it. The receive audio on the radios is awesome, rare
> for yaesu products but this is the 70s and commercial keep in mind.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>
>
>> oh ok, so there was an advantage, I figured as much.
>> when i was looking for some crystals a few years ago, they seemed easy
>> enough to find...but they were like $30 to $50 a piece because they had 
>> to
>> be custom made to order.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX