Good afternoon to the list: I discovered this afternoon, after digging into my pristine T-4XC to find out why it wouldn't tune on 75 meters, that someone in this transmitter's history had removed a plate from the rotating portion of the plate tune air-variable capacitor. Upon close inspection, I noticed what appeared to be some minor arching that had occurred in the past. Rather than fix the problem, apparently the previous user chose instead to remove the offending plate. Actually, if one chooses to work only 40 meters and above, this was not a particularly offensive repair, as the air-variable capacitor has sufficient range to tune 40 through 10 with one less plate. However, on anything below 40 meters, there is not enough capacitance to tune the plate output circuit.
So, if you have an air-variable plate tune capacitor, perhaps in a parts transmitter, and would like to sell it, I would appreciate hearing from you. My best regards to the list; Gene W5DDW Gene McCalmont 270 Oakridge Road Argyle Texas 76226 (940) 464-4474 Office (214)-502-0322 Cell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - subscribe drakelist in body Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
