Hi Waldo,

I assume you have eliminated the obvious and applied contact cleaner to the rotor grounding contacts, a typical problem. And as others have said, the VOM will tell the tale if there is a short.

73, Rich KB8TAD

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 5:18 PM Waldo Magnuson via ARC5 <arc5@mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Hi,
I trying to get my BC-946 operational, capacitors replaced, etc. I suspect the tuning capacitor plates are shorting because at the top end of the band I receive a station (Sacramento, CA from Spokane, WA) and at the bottom of the band a local station. When I tune up, or down, it mostly goes quiet except for scratchies (is that a technical term?) noise. On close inspection one of the rotor plates may be touching a stator plate, hard to see and tell.
Any fix suggestions would be appreciated. Removing the gang capacitor looks messy.
Skip Magnuson W7WGM
Spokane, WA
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