At 09:10 AM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I agree that the crystal and two 33 pf caps usually works very well at 20MHz.
>The only trick to remember in troubleshooting is that when you probe with the
>oscilloscope probe, use the X10 (times 10) impedance instead of the X1. Using
>the X1 setting will stop the oscillation when the scope probe makes contact.
>This gives the impression that the crystal is bad when it is not.


Probe the crystal case.
This will not give full output voltage, but it will also not stop the osc,
and will barely affect frequency.

Otherwise, the handy shortwave radio works really well.

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