[John Bartley]

That's an interesting set. I have owned one, but never liked the style, so I passed it on very quickly. What I find interesting about it is the "tuned RF stage", which if said quickly and without explanation would lead a person to believe that there are two stages of RF tuning in addition to the the tuned oscillator. This is not the case in this set. This set has the extra stage of RF amplification, that stage also being tuned and placed in front of the mixer, BUT .... where most sets have tuned RF coils at the mixer stage, this one does not .... unless I missed something it only amplifies and mixes at the mixer .... it doesn't tune .... hence the tuning capacitor with only two sections instead of the three that are normally associated with a tuned mixer, a tuned oscillator AND a tuned RF stage.

cheers