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Old 12-20-2016, 01:03 PM
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I was thinking about 'borrowing' an AFC circuit for another model.

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Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm View Post
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..
Interesting I may have to try that.

ATM my radio is way at the bottom of a massive list of projects....I may mod it in time for next year's Christmas music switch though.
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