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Old 02-27-2009, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris View Post
I have several of these radios...the FM RF, mixer and oscillator stages are transistorized and on a separate little circuit board which mounts on top of the main one. The AM tuner is a conventional 12BE6 tube and the rest of the circuit is just a conventional tube radio, 2 IF stages and solid state diodes for the FM ratio detector.
I see. So 'solid state tuning' does not mean that they are dispensing with
the mechanical variable capacitor. A bit like early automotive electronic
ignition setups that were still using the breaker points, if I understand
correctly.
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