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- From: jlw@world.std.com (James L Walker)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Changing crystals (was Re: Crystals AM & FM)
- Message-ID: <BrwFEL.GtH@world.std.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:08:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: world.BrwFEL.GtH
- References: <1992Jul23.115921.4298@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Jul23.165042.19769@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- In article <1992Jul23.165042.19769@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu> hutto@smtc.engr.scarolina.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.115921.4298@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, bobwo@ecs.comm.mot.com (Bob Woodhouse) writes:
- >>Hello,
- >>
- >>I have ofeten seen advertisements for pairs of radio crystals in R/C
- >>magazines where crystals marketed for AM radios sell for about $10
- >>a pair and those marketed for FM radios sell for about $20 a pair,
- >>all in the same ad. Maybe the crystals really are different, but I
- >>really doubt it. In all the time I have played with crystals, a
- >>crystal was pretty much a crystal, and maybe something like closeness
- >>of actual frequency to nominal frequency or stability over temperature
- >>changes could be real differences among various crystals. It seems
- ...
- >
- > The reason you can't use AM and FM crystals interchangably is
- > that many modern FM receivers are dual conversion with a 1st
- > IF of 10.7MHz (maybe it's 9MHz, who cares). Therefore an FM
- > dual-conversion receiver crystal will be on a different LO
- > frequency than an AM single-conversion (455KHz IF) receiver
- > crystal. Boy, I can still talk that hardware talk after all
- > these years in the computer business. Must be some brain
- > cells still alive after all :-)
- >
- ...
-
- All this radio stuff is pretty foreign to me, but I can say that when
- I looked into changing the freq. on my radio I was told that dual
- conversion recievers are tricky. I was told that there are two
- frequency ranges for dual-conversion reciever front ends. The high
- frequencies convert down to a standard frequency and the low
- frequencies convert up to a standard frequency. Basically if you pop
- a ch. 40 crystal and replace it with a ch. 16 crystal in a
- dual-conversion FM reciever you are asking for trouble. Also, the
- dual-conversion crystal is not the frequency it's marked with since it
- is used to convert from the frequency it's marked with.
-
- Hopefully the radio experts on this net are now outraged enough to
- flame the heck out of me and give us the real story... :-)
-
- -- Les Walker.
-