Hi Stan,
That is a very interesting proposition you have there.?
On our kits we get great stability without using any ovening of the crystals. If you are burying the whole plot in the back yard I suspect you are going to subject it to more temperature variation than the average shack. So some sort of ovenisation might be required. The only other problem i can think of is with all that packaging and paint how will you get the thing on frequency? I suspect the packaging will affect the output frequency so you need some way to tune it without removing it from the package.?
It sure will puzzle any?archaeologists who dig up your garden in a few hundred years time if it is still there.?
Arv is not the only one who was thinking about a QRSS marine beacon. A friend and I were thinking of one. The case was going to be a 2 liter (not sure what that is in American) transparent coke bottle. Power as many C Cells as we could get into the bottom to act as power/ballast. Possibly solar panel top up, GPS linked to microcontroller to TX location using QRSS.Antenna some sort of loaded vertical. I did ask our equivalent of the FCC if we could do this but they said no as unatteneded beacons are not allowed. May be?be you guys have different rules...?
73s Steve G0XAR
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