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to: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2004-01-29 04:05:44
subject: .BIG. TRANSISTORS

WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to GREG MAYMAN <=-

 RJT> I'd love to have the space to accumulate some of that old stuff again.
 RJT> Just now there's a big old dual tuning cap around here,  much of the
 RJT> rest of that stuff is just *gone*.

 WC> Talk about old dual variable tuning caps you should have seen the
 WC> one I found in the dump as a kid scrapped out from an old Naval
 WC> ship!
 WC> Dang thing was near the size of two two drawer file cabinats side
 WC> by side!

Wow.  I wonder what they were tuning with that?

Biggest one I ever saw was a multiple (3?) gang unit that had plates far
apart enough that I could've stuck my hand in between them.  For
transmitter use,  apparently.

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