[HBR] RE: HBR 2006 and a question

[Don]

I believe the idea is completely within the concept of the "Old Timers"
who built the HBR receivers. What always interested me was how they used
the technology at hand to build their receivers. I don't think they were
just purists building tube receivers. They were merely trying to build
good receivers.. period. Who knows what designs these fellas would have
developed if some of the current components and designs had been
available to them back then.

There is a picture of a fella who used a rotating bowl for a dial
mechanism for his receiver. That is one of the most interesting designs
in your archives. Shows how clever those guys were mechanically as well
as electrically.

I have a question. Most of the HBR designs show a capacitor across the
primary of the audio output transformer. Would someone explain the
concept and use of this capacitor? I assume it is to either flatten the
response of the audio output or peak it. 

Thanks in advance.

Don K5UOS