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para, 1718 (Quartz Resonator Tet Fue: 3.58 MHz Crystal Test- The Sel of Molten Projects inthe Morning Quartz Resonator Test Fixture: 3.58 MHz Crystal Test Just to see if the resonator test fixture produced meaningful results, I plugged a 3.57954 MHz color burst crystal into the socket: Quart fest fixture ~ 3.57954 MHz crystal ‘This is a staged recreation based on actual events; pay no attention to the Colpitts oscillators growing in the background Attaching goesinta and goesouta cables to the HP 8591 spectrum analyzer & tracking generator showed it worked just fine: hpstsctsoler.com201710829Iquertz-rosonator-ost-filure-3-58-mhw-cryst-tos 24a, 1784 (Quartz Resonator Tet Fue: 3.58 MHz Crystal Test The Sel of Molten Projects inthe Morning 11 2 eR m7 @ KR 3.57806 te WF 40.0 wa “W.40 dn mas eK > ‘5 x i © I = A THRKER PAR6 he 16a “2.40 eK r=T | ver BT ms || sfc vem aK core \ LEFT V tre 1of2 Came 3.575% rz SPR 2.08 te ES Bl 2 He eu 300 He SP 1.00 see (Quart: 3.57954 MHz — no cap ‘The reference level is -40 dBm, not the usual 0 dBm, due to the loss in those resistive pads. ‘Unsurprisingly, the parallel resonance valley looks pretty ragged at -120 dBm = 1 nW =7 ui. Remove the jumper to put the capacitor in series: 052 a? ae MR 750 fF

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