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    FT-101 style crystals needed - check your junk boxes

    Looking for a couple HC-25/U crystals as used in the FT-101 series:

    24.020 MHz
    30.520 MHz

    An eBay seller used to offer these but appears to have fallen off the map.

    If no response here and elsewhere I'll order them from JAN, ICM or Bomar (if they're still in business).

    Will also put this in the For Sale area but since a few of the usual suspects own these rigs I figured I would throw it out here first.
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    'Grumpy old bastid' kb2vxa's Avatar
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    Bomar is still around, but has moved into the modern world so with them or anyone else your crystals won't be a stock item like back in the day. I'm reasonably sure engineering has records in their files so they can custom grind them for you like they did for me some years ago for a 1950s vintage 60W RCA Carfone base station I converted to 2M. They found it not in the computer as expected, but in a file folder labeled "old tube type radio".

    BTW that radio has the distinction of being seen in the original The Blob starring Steve McQueen filmed in and around Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It can be seen in the police station, the radio used by the night desk lieutenant to play Chess with his counterpart in Doylestown on their shared frequency.
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