Thanks everyone for the messages of condolences, much appreciated. I think that I've only ever met my Aunt about 6 times in my life part of that problem was that the family broke up while the Sisters were very young, my Mum and her sister (the one in the home on the Isle of White) lived with my Gran and the one in Eastbourne went to live with her dad. When she was old enough she got married to an army officer, and they moved all over the world on various postings, only returning to the UK on his retirement.
My mum was the only sister who made friends with her again on her return, and they kept in reasonable contact with each other. They settled in Eastbourne and when her husband passed on a few years ago they only spoke occasionally on the phone. She has been living in a nursing home for many years now and the only other relative she has is on her husbands side and a distance relative at that but lived near Eastbourne, and they saw each other regularly, but she is now also retired and in the at risk category and her son, a Doctor in Liverpool has forbidden her to leave her flat under any circumstances until this virus is confined to the history books, so unless I make the 200-mile trip (assuming its allowed at the time) then my Aunt will only at best have, if she is lucky the odd staff member at her funeral, which hardly seems right but these are times we live in now
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Back on topic.
The xtal tester is finished (just got to assemble the case for it) and it has passed all the diagnostics, however the only crystal I can quickly lay my hands on is a 2.4576 MHz which does not register when plugged in. I'm hoping that this is a duff crystal and I will go on a hunt for other crystals that I rob from defunct gear to test it out. But all the tests given in the instructions, all check out just fine. More on this later when I return from shopping trip
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