I said give the K40 back and we will fix it. The 130 pF capacitor had
fried inside the base of the antenna. It was a common mass produced
cheapie capacitor. I replaced the burnt one with 2 each 260 pF caps
wired in parallel to make the 130 pF value.


I thought caps in parallel acted like resisitor in series? That would make it
520 instead of 130. But dman, now you got me thinking. I am going to have to go
look it up. I don't recall for sure.

http://www.play-hookey.com/dc_theory...apacitors.html

Two caps in parallel are additive.

I may be wrong but I believe the cap value in a K-40 is 55 pf