Hi Warren

Ok good stuff on AB2 / AB1, very understandable the way you explained it.

Got brave and tried loading up on 80m today and adjusted to 300W carrier as that's the most the balun can handle in the Windom.
Checked into a net, did 2 rounds, got good reports, so its a start in how the controls work and am happy. :o)

I was told the amp may work on 160m (even though its not designed as such) if more capacitance and inductance is added. So
I thought I would try it with my Dentron MT-3000A tuner as its big and has lots of inductance and capacitance. Unfortunately I guess not enough. I could not get a dip and the tubes were cherry red most the time fiddling around, so I guess for now I can do 80-10m which is fine.

I have ran into some stuff online where a relay was added in to switch in the extra inductance and capacitance to get it to work on 160m.

Now that I think about this, I did change the door knob caps (C19, C20) which are in parallel to form 0.001uF which you had mentioned prior.
The replacements were new old stock, but when tested , are better than what was in there, but still not too close to 0.001uF when you do the math. These capacitors lower in value as they age apparently. I am wondering if these were bought closer to the intended value, maybe my tuner would be able to pick up the slack.

You had mentioned TV style , versus another style. These are I guess the TV style. I have a photo of the originals here:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/qgrel4...dders.jpg/file

They are referred to as the padder caps.