[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] What does this test and how does it work?

[J Forster]

There is a screw as part of the mount of some microwave mixer diodes,
but, AFAIK, it was not a field adjustment. The diode was good or bad.
Period.

FWIW,
-John

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C Whitaker wrote:

> de WB2CPN
> I've used them in in WWII GCA radar,
> and Philco microwave in the 50's, but
> I never heard of a test set.  Those
> devices were unique in they had a
> screw that adjusted the point contact.
> But in this test set the screw wouldn't
> be accessible.
> 73  Clete
>
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