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Old 12-20-2016, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post

The only thing that annoys me is that it's FM tuning drifts for ~20min after warmup.....
I too have one of these "bugeye" Zeniths.

Replace the ceramics in the oscillator and FM Converter section with NP0(C0G)ceramic discs for lower drift. Surprisingly, silver micas fail to prevent the drift....

IIRC, it was hard finding all the pF values at one vendor..
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