https://crovencrystals.com/

Rick N6RK

On 8/13/2022 10:55 AM, Corby Dawson via time-nuts wrote:

Hi

Bliley would be the other likely candidate.

https://www.bliley.com/crystals_transducers https://www.bliley.com/crystals_transducers

Neither one is likely to be “low cost”. I would not be at all surprised to find
somebody in Asia willing to sell you something (possibly at a lower price).
Just who and how to get in touch with them …. no idea.

As idiotic as it sounds, the lowest cost approach is likely to be buying a
60 MHz OCXO on eBay (assuming you can actually find one) and tearing
it apart for the crystal ….

Bob

On 8/13/22 11:12 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist via time-nuts wrote:

now part of Wenzel, but I think they still operate independently.

Two sources that indicate they do the sort of crystals that ICM did for
radios are:

Klove: https://www.klove.nl/quartslab/

or its main webpage at: https://www.klove.nl/

And Bomar:  http://bomarcrystal.com/

Disclaimer: I have no direct experience with either myself.  A friend
was successful buying a crystal from QuartsLab (With an S)(Now Klove)
for a small transceiver.  Bomar has been around for a long time.  I did
have a service shop fix a receiver of mine and they got a crystal from
Bomar.

gc

On 8/13/22 13:55, Corby Dawson via time-nuts wrote:

Am 2022-08-14 0:25, schrieb Bob kb8tq via time-nuts:

Someone I know organized a group buy at Laptech in US/Ca.
<  https://rfx.co.uk/products    >

Prices went from €/$ 32 for simple AT to €/$ 96 for 5th SC at 98 MHz.
Problem was the minimum order quantity of 10 for the simple ones and
15 for the more interesting and not-so-cheap ones, and that was for
a bunch of types in parallel. AT at high overtone and 60°C is probably
not on the cheap side.

The types that I was interested in did not meet the minimum order
quantity,
but it seems those that did were top-notch.

That's how I got a nice 5 MHz SC from a semi-defective Morion MV-89A.
Morion is currently not a source, only for Old Stock.

I don't know where the thread starter is from, but I heard it was said
that you can get Croven in Europe from Axtal.

Cheers, Gerhard