[Boatanchors] Capacitor Information?

mac w7qho at aol.com
Mon Mar 31 14:20:02 EDT 2014


Went to look up Cardwell in my 1943 Radios Master and found the pages  
listed for them missing (H-55 to H 60).  No evidence of being torn or  
cut out somewhere along the way, just not there.  Interesting.........

Dennis D.  W7QHO
Glendale, CA

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On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:

>
>    Fixed air dielectric caps were pretty common and I think all the  
> larger manufacturers of air caps made them. They were used mostly in  
> transmitters and antenna tuners. Air dielectric caps have the  
> advantages of extremely low loss and good stability, only vacuum  
> capacitors have are superior.  I do not know if there is any  
> Cardwell literature on line. They were a very old and well respected  
> capacitor manufacturer who advertised in QST and the ARRL handbook  
> for decades.
>
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> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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