SB-220 with vacuum variable

I have problem with the tune cap arcing in the SB-220 and caused some damage to the components.

Recently I purchased one 5-250 pF vacuum variable from ebay and installed it for a trial. It works very good from 15M to 80M, but look like it is not working well on 10M. This problem need to be sort out when have free time.

PVRM

On 27 Oct, my birthday, gave me a good memory.

I ran through an auction via the Transport Dept Private Vechicle Rigistration Mark Scheme that have my radio amateur radio callsign as the mark.

It is on my car now.