Hey everyone,
I am the lucky recipient of the Electra Bearcat III scanner from my girlfriend's late grandfather. I must admit I've been spoiled by technology, as I have a digital trunking scanner and a Yaesu dual-band HT.
I'm a little perplexed on this radio because I've never worked with crystals before. Opening it up, there's a bank of 8 channels, each with a crystal in it. On the top of the crystal, it gives a frequency number.
I thought it'd be fun to find some crystals that were tuned to our local repeater, 146.7000 Mhz. If I'm looking for a crystal (HC-25/U), do I search by frequency or crystal frequency? I downloaded the manual for this scanner and it gave me a formula to determine the crystal frequency: (FREQ-10.8)/3. So for my local repeater, that would be 45.3.
Any idea of where I can find this crystal? I've found a few sites on the internet that sells them, I'm just not completely sure what I'm ordering. Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me. The only crystal that works in this rig right now is the weather frequency. I would love to add some repeater frequencies to listen to.
Thanks!
I am the lucky recipient of the Electra Bearcat III scanner from my girlfriend's late grandfather. I must admit I've been spoiled by technology, as I have a digital trunking scanner and a Yaesu dual-band HT.
I'm a little perplexed on this radio because I've never worked with crystals before. Opening it up, there's a bank of 8 channels, each with a crystal in it. On the top of the crystal, it gives a frequency number.
I thought it'd be fun to find some crystals that were tuned to our local repeater, 146.7000 Mhz. If I'm looking for a crystal (HC-25/U), do I search by frequency or crystal frequency? I downloaded the manual for this scanner and it gave me a formula to determine the crystal frequency: (FREQ-10.8)/3. So for my local repeater, that would be 45.3.
Any idea of where I can find this crystal? I've found a few sites on the internet that sells them, I'm just not completely sure what I'm ordering. Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me. The only crystal that works in this rig right now is the weather frequency. I would love to add some repeater frequencies to listen to.
Thanks!