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It often happens that I can work on my radios only once in a while.? There was a period when I had three 980s gutted out for various repairs that took weeks to complete.? To avoid errors I placed 1/4" Avery color dots on front panels to be able to quickly tell which witch is which.? Now the green and blue dotted rigs are assembled and in service.? The third is a parts radio, in storage.? That one rightfully received a red dot HI.

I also thought of the TXCO solutions. It looks like Seiko has an interesting part in the pipeline, available next year from Mouser:

This specific part caught my attention because it has the frequency control pin.? The garden variety TCXOs do not.? They can be stable but not necessarily accurate, which bothers me a lot.

One of my 980s has been recently upgraded to the 21-century.? I built a PIC keyer to replace the Curtis-based Yaesu option.? The latter was such a nightmare to operate IMHO... Now I can enjoy the rig and less clutter on my desk (i.e. no need for an external keyer).

73, Wald N4PL