[Radioroslyn]

One other thing I wanted to point out is when I go to tune this unit it is sensitive to touch. When I hold in to the dail knob any station it is tuned into fades out and as soon as I release the knob that station comes back on. What would cause that?

Could be a poor earth ground. Mounted in a car there is a bit more metal around it help stabilize it's metal cabinet to ground which you don't have sitting on the work bench. There also could be some effect between you touching the knob/chassis and the ant. This may cause cause the mixer/osc to pull a bit. These 12v HV tube or space charge tube are not quite as robust as regular tube w/normal hv on them and can be a bit squirrely

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