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54C Band switch Schematic Position
#1

A simple and possibly obvious question for some.

On a 54C schematic is Part 6 (the band switch on the antenna coil ) shown in the broadcast or police band setting? The switch is open on my set.

   

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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#2

Rule of thumb,  the band switch will be shown set to broadcast band. David
#3

Open it's in the bcb closed it's in the police band.
Tight in there isn't it!

When my pals were reading comic books
I was down in the basement in my dad's
workshop. Perusing his Sam's Photofoacts
Vol 1-50 admiring the old set and trying to
figure out what all those squiggly meant.
Circa 1966
Now I think I've got!

Terry
#4

Thanks, guys! What threw me off was someone had bridged the switch.

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
―Letters to an American Lady,  C.S. Lewis

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