On Apr 25, 2022, at 14:17, John Watkins via ARC5 <[email protected]> wrote:
I also have the PRM-10, The complete coil set and a few spares. Works great to set up antennas, and very stable. I use an HP counter with a pickup loop for frequency control. Also easy to use for spoting receiver freqs especially on my BC-348.John WD5ENU______________________________________________________________
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPadOn Monday, April 25, 2022, 15:28, MICHAEL ST ANGELO <[email protected]> wrote:
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 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
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