[ARC5] R-25 dial nonlinearities

AKLDGUY . neilb0627 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 18:31:32 EST 2017


*> Which reminds me: do we yet know for certain that those capacitors were
made with Invar,*
*> which is inherently temperature-compensating?*
*>*
*> *We DO know that the ARC-5 transmitters' VFO capacitor is very, very
much different from the
> other two capacitors in the transmitter.

That begs the question of whether the VFO's lockable bandset capacitor
(inside the cover) and the
small value top-mounted trimmer are also made of Invar. It wouldn't make
sense to use a very
high quality capacitor in conjunction with two of lesser quality.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM
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