• [SSDN] Troubleshooting Apollo: 23 MHz Crystals in a NASA Ground Receive

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    Troubleshooting Apollo: 23 MHz Crystals in a NASA Ground Receiver

    Posted: 31 Dec 2021 02:22 AM PST http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2021/12/troubleshooting-apollo-23-mhz-crystals.html

    More amazing Apollo stuff from CuriousMarc. Here we see them struggling to find the proper frequency for one of the oscillators in a dual conversion
    UHF receiver from the Apollo program.  For the VCO, they needed a crystal
    in the 23 MHz range. They faced the same questions we face:   Series or parallel?  Load capacitance?  Fundamental or overtone? It just so happens that at this moment I have on

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