Discussions of old military radio gear are dominated by talk of U.S. radios. Yesterday in the comments section of the SWLing Post I found two interesting videos about German WWII equipment. Above you can see LA6NCA's receivers. Below there's a video of a Luftwaffe receiver with an amazing capacity for really rapid frequency change.
Re: Receiver Mica Disease
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You might be seeing the effects of bad silver-mica capacitors. Apparently
silver can migrate thru the mica insulation forming little fingers
(dendrites) wh...
8 hours ago