[Boatanchors] Cheap & Easy Selectivity

[Price Smith]

Hi Carl.

My HBR-16 receiver with the Eddystone dial uses several "Gimmick" 
condensers.
I built it in the 60s and have all of W6TC, Ted Crosby's info.

73....Price W0RI



> Gimmick is more correctly applied to any capacitor created by using 2 
> wires
> as the plates. Tightly twisted is simply one of several configurations. 
> The
> term can be stretched a bit when a vacuum tube plate is used as one of the
> capacitor plates.
>
> The term goes back to the early 30's at least.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>