Re: Dip Meter TC Tuner

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

You can still get the 365 pF variable capacitors somewhere.  I just bought a
cheap radio and it has one in it.  The hangup might be that minimum order
quantities are huge.

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Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Dip Meter TC Tuner


 > Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>
 >
 > Hi Steve/All
 >
 > >Might have to cannibalize one out of a cheap AM radio.  If you know of
 > >sources, please post it or email me directly - they are becoming scarce
 > >items.
 >
 > Can't speak for anywhere but Australia, but I have seen ex-military
 > variable caps on Yahoo auctions over here.  But you're right, neither
 > Farnell nor RS have them listed (I haven't tracked down a Digikey
Australia
 > yet).
 >
 > Old wireless sets should be plentiful in junk shops, so that may be the
answer.
 >
 > This does raise the question: how do people build radios now if you can't
 > get variable capacitors? (Apart from trimmers.)  I'm sure that they don't
 > use variable inductors and I didn't think that RC oscillators were
suitable
 > for high frequencies; forgive me for being out of date...
 >
 > Cheers
 >
 > M
 >
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