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 $50 a piece because they had to
be custom made to order.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
> You tuned it for one channel or set of freqs at a time, using a variant of
> thumb wheels/kind of like bat handle switches, except they weren't
> actually
> either one.
> The advantage of such a unit is that using it you had a completely
> frequency
> adjile/although only one channel at a time, radio,
> without having to russel up, if you could even find them, at 5$s minimum
> per
> send and or receive/to rocks per channel, xtals.
> GLB Synthecizer, that's what it was, although don't know the particular
> nomenclature, will try to find more, dd.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>
>
>> does this particular unit allow you to use multiple frequencies in place
>> of
>> a single set of crystals or something?
>> beyond that, i'm not sure what the point of that would be since crystals
>> will do exactly the same thing...and they're not hard to come by really.
>> at least not for motorola, GE and other old crystal radios.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>
>>
>>> isn't there an older unit that'll make both xmit and receive xtal freq
>>> substitutions? It seems to me that it was made by or called by the name
>>> GLB
>>> something or other. They had some that you could use with xtal rigs,
>>> for
>>> two and six meters, and maybe others.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 12:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>>
>>>
>>>>I actually have a couple crystal radios here and was thinking about
>>>>putting
>>>> one in the workshop, actually my storage, but I'm building a workshop
>>>> in
>>>> the
>>>> corner of it, and putting one of those down there but the crystals are
>>>> too
>>>> expensive so I decided against it but I did think about doing that
>>>> myself
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 9:55 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sounds like a workable plan for lots of the toneless radios.
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