[R-390] Bandswitch 7.000+ picture/position

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Steve,

You do not really want a picture of the band switch in one position.

This is a simultaneous equation in 6 positions and six wafer per position.

Look at all the switch settings going both up and down the Meg hertz.

Look at where the band switch sets each time it moves over one switch 
position.

The goal is to get maximum metal to metal switch contact in each wafer and 
in each position.

It is a best judgment call of all the wafers in all the positions.

You can get it looking good on one band and completely be missing on other 
bands.

What happens is if you do not eye ball it all real good, you have one wafer 
and position that just almost touches. Then this becomes a hot spot and 
starts to burn the corner off the contacts. Then that band stops working once 
enough metal is eroded. At 50 plus years almost all these switches have 
warped a bit. Have a burnt corner. Have a worn wafer. 

The real solution is best eye and lots of checking several times both up 
and down. Just a little bit of change in the shaft and clamp can make or break 
an alignment.

Roger AI4NI