And unless you have a whole bunch of capacitors and relays, you'll almost
never hit the right combination.  Unfortunately, it's probably cheaper to
do it that way than to have the motors, which is probably why they do it.

Steve

On Saturday 1/8/05 23:05 Butch Bussen wrote:

>As I understand it, one of the reasons tuners such as the one in the 2000s
>aren't as good is because of the way they tune.  In my 440 and 690 radios
>I had, they were tuned with little motors that adjusted variable c
>components.  In the 2000, relays click on and off adding capacitance, in
>some cases either having too much or not enough.
>73s
>Butch Bussen
>wa0vjr