[Boatanchors] darn foreign schematic symbols

[manualman]

You can determine polarity many times by how it's connected and/or how
it's used in a circuit. Which HT is it?

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:05:04 -0400 "Dick KF4NS" <kf4nsradio at verizon.net>
writes:
> Hope someone can help. I have a schematic of a Japanese HT from the 
> early 80's or maybe late 70's with a symbol I hope I can describe 
> properly. Searches all over the Inet proved fruitless.
> 
> It is a pair of vertical dark lines with lighter slant bars between 
> 
> the vertical bars. I of course suspect it is a condenser of some 
> sort. 
> I went through all my dozens of tech books but only found something 
> 
> close just once. It was described as a polarized capacitor but if 
> so, 
> no way to determine the polarity. Weird !!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 73, Dick KF4NS
> St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
> Keep The Glow!