• You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.
  • Click here to find out how to win free radios from Retevis!

I need some crystal infomation for the 8719 pll chip

MB8719 PLL - There is a neat trick that involves putting Pin 10 at exactly 1/2 VCC that tricks the divide by N encoder to add 192 instead of +64 or +128 to the N Code from the Channel Selector, have you tried it? I have long, long ago, it is tricky, but it works. You would either have +V (or isolated, internal pull-up) for +64, Ground for +128, or 1/2 VCC for +192.
It could be done with binary adders like 4008's, the last bit used would have to be biased 1/2 VCC, and either inverted first to correct the internal Pin 10 inversion and set up in a tristate mode.

Oh, and I would change the crystal to 11.1125 from a Washington or older single conversion MB8719 chassis to get proper band switching, "lowers and uppers".
 
Last edited:

dxChat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.