Just Wondering ??

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

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.

It was worse with the Japanese radios.
There wasn't too many radios that had the dial scale reversed.
Maybe they were planning to use a wavelength scale, instead of the frequency scale.