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SolderSmoke Daily News
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Split Stator Temperature Compensation Also Used in Yaesu FT-101
Posted: 25 Feb 2022 06:56 AM PST
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/02/split-stator-temperature-compensation.html
The eagle eye of VE3EAC spotted this (he also correctly pointed to a tiny broken "tine" as the cause of my HP8640B woes). I had missed the temp comp circuit. Inside the Yaesu FT-101 VFO box that I used in my Mythbuster rig, there is a split stator capacitor and two temperature compensation
caps similar to that recently described by Mike WU2D. Very cool. You can see the temp compensation cap
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Old Military Radios at the Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, and Autogyros
Posted: 24 Feb 2022 04:36 AM PST
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/02/old-military-radios-at-air-and-space.html
My son Bill and I were out at the National Air and Space Museum's
Udvar-Hazy Center (out near Dulles Airport, where they display the really
big stuff). We spotted these old military radios. The ARC-5 Command sets caught my eye. Of course I was thinking about the great VFO parts inside those boxes... The acknowledgement of the ARC-5's contribution to ham
radio (on the card) was nice. They
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