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[Barry]

> ... I recently did a shotgun replacement of all primary caps in my SW 390a
> > and noticed an enormous improvement on all bands.
> >
> I wonder if by "primary caps, where the primary is in the plate circuit of
> a stage" you mean bypass caps from the B+ side to ground, or if you mean
> the cap meant to tune the coil, across the primary.  And, I wonder how many
> caps were found INside the coil cans.

I took that to mean the caps in the transformers.  If that was the case, did you check before and after performance for each replacement?  It would be interesting to know if improved performance was due to more than one replacement.

73,
Barry - N4BUQ