WShoots1 wrote:
Tube radios with real variable condens... er capacitors in them had
split outside plates that could be bent outward to fine tune
throughout a range. That could be a problem, though, with multiband
radios.

Bill, K5BY

The typical tube radios usually had chokes at one end and trim caps for the
other band end and you had to go back and forth as the poster described.
There is a set for each band.

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