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Which way is the band spread capacitor facing? Capacitance should
be minimum with dial at zero. This is Halicrafters design, on
non-calibrated band spreads the dial indicates the amount of capitance.
I think calibrated dials are set for the logging scale to be the same
but in any case the band set is generally at the high end of the band.
The dial cord is backwards of its orientation on later receivers
like the S-40. The string crosses over.
BTW, I wondered about this. My S-40A came with the band spread
string reversed and stop peg facing the opposite way to that shown in
the handbooks. I reversed it. In its original position the band spread
went from zero to 100 but in what I thought was the correct position it
stops at about 95. Same for the S-20R. It made me wonder if the original
position was correct and there is a global error in the handbooks for
all this series of receivers. The position as shown in the S-85 handbook
seems to confirm this. A puzzle. At some point I will try reversing the
cable in both receivers. In any case, at ZERO the band spread is at
minimum band spread capacitance, plates turned out from stator, this is
as it should be regardless of the cord.