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07-06-2016, 10:39 AM
Just so you know.....a "varicap" is a whole another animal Icon_smile although in today's radios used for exact same purpose as the variable capacitor. It is in fact a diode with the PN junction capacitance controlled by the applied voltage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicap
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vari-cap lubrication - by leftwing25 - 07-05-2016, 05:12 PM
RE: vari-cap lubrication - by morzh - 07-05-2016, 11:17 PM
RE: vari-cap lubrication - by leftwing25 - 07-05-2016, 11:27 PM
RE: vari-cap lubrication - by morzh - 07-06-2016, 10:39 AM
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