robert casey wrote:
Many years ago my father (now a silent key) built a crystal tester that
pretty much worked with any crystal you stuck into it. Low frequency,
high frequency, name it. It also had a meter that indicated "crystal
activity" and also had an adjustment (think it was a pot) for IIRC
"bias". Also an output jack to feed say a frequency counter.

I imagine that he got the circuit from either an issue of QST or the
handbook. Searched the web, though I found many circuits, none looked
like this one. Anyone recognize from my sketchy description the circuit
my father used, and any links to where I can get a schematic so I can
build my own? TIA

Pierce oscillator circuit will do what you want, and you should
find it in some editions of the Handbook. I know Hints and Kinks had
an updated version using a MOSFET, but to be honest anything with a high
impedance input and some gain will oscillate that way.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."