[ARC5] Heath GDO People

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Oren Elliot made the capacitors for Heath. They are still in business.

https://www.orenelliottproducts.com/product-category/air-variable-capacitors/>

I wonder if they still stock the GDO capcitors? If so it would not be cheap.

Mike N2MS

> On 04/25/2022 2:44 PM Robert Nickels <ranickels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> I don't use a GDO much as I have better ways to measure resonance but 
> the Millen and Measurements are weapons of choice when I need one.  Also 
> the Heathkit Tunnel Dipper is handy and the battery lasts forever.
> 
> About all I can say about the Heathkit GDO is that I have two that are 
> undergoing "transition" on my bench.  A neighbor who flips houses gave 
> me a bunch of stuff that came from a local ham's house, including two 
> Heathkit GDOs, without coils, naturally. One rattled and when I opened 
> it up about 2/3 of the rotor plates from the variable capacitor fell out 
> so that sealed their fate. T