IS going from 50MHz to 100MHz crossing some sort of hard physical line (not that I know of, BTW).

I wanted to source a 100MHz can oscillator as a (sorta) high frequency standard, but the cheapest one I could find was $127!!! A 50MHz oscillator from the same source was 1/33 the price.

That seems like a pretty steep step.

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Actually, I was just looking for stand alone 5V oscillator in a can. They do have them, they just cost a lot. Digikey have them listed to over $3000. Their cheapest is $127.

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It might be because you need 5v, by the time a lot of electronics got over 50 MHz they were mostly running at 3.3v. Some 5v systems that did need a fast clock used a PLL to multiply a 25 or 33 MHz input, for example the MC88915.

I have a few spares that I bought from China a while back (they were suspiciously inexpensive, but they seem to perform to spec, at least to the extent that my 'scope can validate).

I don't know if I just got lucky, but I'm happy to drop one in the mail if you pm me your address.

Perhaps it's the "in a can" aspect that's problematic. At any rate, I had no difficult with price or availability in 2015 when I selected an 80 MHz oscillator in SMD format. (And it's 5V powered.)

I hacked my own mounting, as this was for a through-hole project (wire wrap, in fact) with very little available space.

-- Jeff

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That's another possibility I could look into.

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