WARC bands - WSPR/QRSS Crystals

OK, 30m is trivial, so let's forget about that for a moment.
What about 17m and 12m?


For 17m I found a very suitable combination:

• 13.104MHz + 5MHz = 18.104MHz

Some upwards pull by 600Hz, and we are there. Personally, I would build the filter(s) from 5MHz crystals, the pulled XO would therefore be at 13.104MHz. Both crystals are available from Pollin (www.pollin.de).


12m will be somewhat more tricky:

• 16.9344MHz + 8.000MHz = 24.9344MHz

Here, a downwards pull by 9.8kHz is required to reach the WSPR band, that is a lot. However, it should be doable with the 16.9344MHz crystal, which would therefore serve as XO while the 8MHz crystals will form filters. Those crystals are also available at Pollin.


Just as a quick reminder, there is nothing wrong with operating QRSS next to WSPR.