[Boatanchors] Globe King 500A tuning

[Jim Wilhite]

Chances are one of the mica caps in the coarse load switching 
arrangement has spiked and is bad, or if something happened and he had 
high circulating current on that switch it could have melted a contact 
finger.  I have seen both problems on the 500A.

The switch is BCD switching and goes 100, 200, 400, 500, 1000 pf.

Jim/W5JO


 Anyway, if one of the
> caps is used for the non-working bands but not for the
> others it, and the switch and wiring associated with it
> should be checked.  Also, the switch and wiring for whatever
> coil position is used on that band.  If the problem turns
> out to be one of these guys check the same thing for the
> non-working 15 meters.