[TenTec] RE: Field Strength meter

[Dale L. Martin]

I don't know what picture in the handbook you guys are looking
at, but here's what I see in mine (ARRL Handbook for Radio
Amateur's - 1995, page 24.2)
:

Tantalum's color codes are based in microfarads (uF).

Polyester and fixed ceramic color codes are based in picofarads
(pF or uuF).

Very likely the type of capacitor used in a Field Strength Meter
would be a ceramic or poly capacitor, not a tantalum (usually
polarized).  At the frequencies it may be incurring, pF values
are very likely and expected.

73,
dale, kg5u






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