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KD0NDO

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Has anyone ever re crystaled one of these pagers (minitor II)

if so what are the steps you took to do so
 

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Has anyone ever re crystaled one of these pagers (minitor II)

if so what are the steps you took to do so

Remove the guts.
The channel crystal is on the small RF board and the board just pops off.
Desolder xtal and remove carefully. Solder in new one using pad and cushion.
If the freq is moved quite a bit, you may need a new tuning coil, located next to xtal.
If it's a 2 channel, hope the xtals are marked 'cuz i can't remember which goes where.
Snap RF board back on and temp install battery and turn on.
Using freq counter, adjust tuning coil to bring channel on freq.
Remove battery and reassemble.
 

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thank you i just picked one up for 20 dollars and i only need to move the freq about .200 mhz so i am happy
 

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Minitor Ii

Does the small board just pop off ?..
Or is desoldering of brass strip required ?
 
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