I thought before i added in the IF Amps i would build the xtal filter first and see how it looked. The values of 33pf seemed very small and would end up with quite a wide filter. Typical values for a 2K wide filter are usually around the 100pf mark, so i started there.
Obviously i was wrong, but i am thinking 50pf might be closer to the mark after looking at the bode plot. Its not going to break any performance records and the skirts are kind of garbage for a 5 xtal filter. But, I will see how it goes on receive once i have the rest of the radio built.
As far as xtal filters go, this is one of the better looking ones I have built HEHE, so I guess the others have been really crap. It is kind of symmetrical looking and only 3db-ish of ripple. Might be ok. We will see.
Ok, so after playing with cap values i got the filter about the right width, but there is a lot of variance in the passband. 8db to be exact. Way to much. But as there is no way to impedance match this, there is not a lot i can do. It is what it is as they say and as I am only building this as a receiver, I can live with it.
