Mathew, Did you order just bare crystals to put in some existing channel elements, or did you send the elements to Bomar and have them compensated with the new crystals? That may be part of the problem, but usually the lack of compensation doesn't prevent the crystal from operating- it just might allow them to drift more than the specified tolerance.
Since the Exec II radio has tuning adjustments in both the oscillator-multiplier and the RF assembly, the non-operation may be nothing more than a lack of tuning. If the previous frequencies are far removed from the new frequencies, the tuning may be so far off that the oscillator is not even working. What channel frequencies were used previously? It may be that some components may need to be changed to optimize the radios for out-of-band operation. 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathew Quaife Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 9:09 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Bowmar Crystals Ordered, all the RX not working for GE EXEC II mobiles Thanks Chuck, found them in the list that was referenced. So these are correct, why do they not work? Anyone with any good ideas? Mathew Chuck Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For high side, high band -- F+11.2/9 For high side, UHF -- F+11.2/27 Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: Mathew Quaife <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Bowmar Crystals Ordered, all the RX not working for GE EXEC II mobiles Thanks Chuck, that is what they sent me, so your math is just fine. Then there must be something I am missing. I can take one of the old xtals and they work out just fine, so I know the receivers are working. Might I ask what the formula you used was? It's been a long time since I have calculated a crystal freq. so just need the formula configuration. Mathew Chuck Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If my hasty math is correct: 144.81 low side = 14.845555 144.81 high side = 17.334444 434.875 low side = 16.39537 434.875 high side = 16.521296 Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "n9lv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:n9lv%40yahoo.com> > To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:40 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Bowmar Crystals Ordered, all the RX not working for GE EXEC II mobiles > Hope someone can help shed some light here. I ordered xtals from > Bomar (3 week wait) for the GE EXEC II mobile radios, 6 for RX for > 144.810 and one RX of 434.875, all high side injection. None of them > are working at all. At the same time I ordered tx xtals for the same > radio, they all work just fine. What might I be missing here, or did > they just cut them all wrong. > > Mathew
