"coffelt2" wrote in message
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Many of my two gang condensers were from early Superhetrodyne's
where one
gang tuned the local oscillator, and the other tried to tune the antenna
input circuit.
This resulted in major engineering headaches, trying to get the oscillator
tracking
the antenna........ or was it the other way around? Anyway, the gang used
for
the local oscillator was much smaller (in fully meshed capacitance) and
with
strangely shaped plates.

Then, with a sufficiency of supply, use as a single gang condenser, and
have more of them in sequence (with more knobs to twiddle)

Any real radio amateur worth his salt is quite capable of tweaking lots
of knobs to get the best performance, as, indeed, we all had to do once.

On that front, a few years back a family member wanted to buy me a present
so I
opted for an FT817 so as not to impact heavily on his finances, but with
nothing for
me to do, the FT817 palled into ennui very quickly, seemingly being little
removed
from a CB set, and so with his approval , sold it on again and
returned the cash to him.