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Old 01-07-2008 | 11:14 PM
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Default RE: Crystals. What's the difference?


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and you shouldnt even use different manufacturers crystals in a reciever unless they are meant for it.
And please listen to this advice. Your receiver might "seem" to work, but you could have lost a lot of range.
It is even worse in the transmitter; you might be a danger at the field, transmitting on your neighbours frequency in addition.

TX and RX Xtals have different characteristics. In a receiver the Xtal works without changing freq. In the TX the Xtal have to be able to deal with deviation. Deviation is a change in freq, and this is why it is called FM. The frequency is changed to code the signals, or shifthing.