[ARC5] ARC-5 on 20 meters

[AKLDGUY .]

Yes, that is a technique that can also be used with the receivers to raise
the frequency.
Effectively, the small capacitor becomes the tank resonator and the big
capacitor becomes
a variable in series with it. Same calculation as for resistors in
**parallel**.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> What I have never understood is why, instead of ripping plates off the
> tuning caps, they
> didn't simply add fixed caps in series with each one.
>
> I intend to try that with the hacked up transmitters I own here when I
> "make" one of them for
> 20 meters.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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