Ceramic
Disc Capacitor 10nF


The marking on these capacitors is 103Z. Z refers to the
dielectric type. 103 is the capacitance value in
picofarads (pF) where this is read as 1,0, followed by three
zeros. You may well get capacitors with just "103" as the
marking. In the circuit, C1, C3, and C5 are used as D.C.
blocking capacitors. These allow the radio signal to go from one
stage to the next while not changing the D.C. conditions set up
with the resistors. C2 and C4 are used as R.F. emitter
bypass capacitors. They allow the radio currents to bypass
R1 and R3 which keeps the radio signal gain of those stages as
high as possible.
0.01uF = 10nF = 10,000pF
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