Is that thing beautiful or what? That is the VFO assembly from an HT-37. This one includes the fly-wheel mechanism. It tunes 5 - 5.5 MHz. I'll probably replace the tube with an FET, but mostly keep it as is for use in a future transceiver. It is built like a battleship. Hallicrafters did not mess around with the solidity of VFO construction.
I was a bit disappointed when I did not see the split stator temperature compensation trimmer cap that was present on the Hallicrafters variable cap that I bought back in February 2021:
I took a look inside my own (beloved) HT-37 and saw that it too lacks the temp compensation trimmer that came with the February 2021 variable cap. Could it be that the February 2021 seller had the source wrong? Could he have in fact been selling me the variable cap from an HT-32? Or could it be that Hallicrafters added this split stator temp compensation capacitor to later versions of the HT-37?
Hallicrafters patented the split stator temp compensation circuit (U.S. patent #2718617). Chuck Dachis says in his book about Hallicrafters that the company had perfected this circuit by 1957.
An HT-32B transmitter was selling for $725 in 1963. That's $7020 in today's money. Wow, and that is just for the transmitter!
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Are the tick marks linear or bunched up at the end?
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Linear! It is a series tuned Clapp. Just like the similarly linear FT-101 VFO.
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