[time-nuts] Old Crystal

[Elio Corbolante]

> I've picked up a couple of old crystals. Mostly because they look neat.
> They are 1Mhz, in a glass tube. The quartz is ~25mm dia, at about 1 mm
> thick. Was able to get them to oscillate using a Colpitts circuit. They
> will oscillate at 2.851Mhz (probably some strange mode)  if given the
> chance.
>
> I've been scouring my reference books here, and haven't had much luck
> finding any details on how one would even guess at the parameters of a
> quartz like this.
>

It seems to me they are of Russian origin: the write "кГц" means "kHz"