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Old 04-24-2013, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Geist View Post
had inductor tuning.. But the picture is close enough..
One nice feature of this radio is that the frequencies are nicely evenly spread out across the dial, not with the high frequencies scrunched together on radios using a tuning cap.

The wire on the coilforms of the variable inductors are wound with varied spacing between turns, so that linear movement of the ferrite core will produce a linear change of frequency.
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