At 03:22 PM 11/23/2004, Falcon Wireless Tech Support - KF4HAZ wrote:

>You tell me.
>It was a "colorburst crystal" 3.579545 MHz, well at least the one from FOX 
>was, but the other brand was stamped 3.57 MHz and did not give any 
>specifications as to stability or drift.
>The frequency would begin changing within 30 seconds of the AC coming on 
>and would continue to drift till it turned off at which point it would 
>gradually begin to return to its original frequency, you could just about 
>tell when the AC was ready to turn back on by watching the frequency.

Your padding caps have a temperature coefficient too.
It may be making the problem worse, or better, depending on magnitude and 
direction, relative to the crystal.


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