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Subject: [Amps] Alpha to Omega
From: "Harold B. Mandel" <ka1xo@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:30:55 -0400
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What good does gold plating do at HF frequencies?

Matter-of-fact, what good does silver plating tank components
do at HF frequencies?

I looked at the photo, in close-up, of the Omega.

The air-variable capacitor stator support shaft
is bent, coming downwards in the middle of
the capacitor.

The vertical RFC near the air-variable looks to have
a relay contact on its top.  The relay looks like an
open-frame variety redolent of the Magnacraft
High Voltage tap-changer on the '77 series.

Would not a Kilovac H-8, or similar, be more
apropos to a "state-of-the-art" design? 

I guess that when the white smoke escaped
during the hamfest the magic went with it. 
Good choice of moniker: Omega....

Hal Mandel
W4HBM
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