Thread: Early FM tuners
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Old 5th Jan 2005, 8:08 pm   #6
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Default Re: Early FM tuners

I remember buying a couple of such tuners back in the early 60's when I had an interest in building valve amplifiers and large corner enclosures using 15in Wharfdale speakers. The main problem with them was drift as this was before the days of AFC. One of them used a turret pre-set tuning arrangement like the old TV's but it was forever giving trouble because of dirty contacts, in spite of contact cleaner. The cores of the coils on the turret were also inclined to move because of vibration, sending them out of tune. O those were the days!!
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