Plate Tank?

[Mike Silva KK6GM]

>
>And now he asks me a question for which I have no answer.  Why is the
>output tuned circuit between the plate and the antenna terminal of a
>transmitter called a 'tank' circuit?  I've always called it a 'tank'
>circuit since I was a little shaver in the '40s and sitting on ZB's lap
>at his big ole homebrew CW transmitter.  My 1947 handbook also calls it a
>'tank', but provides no explanation of the term.
>
>Can anyone help me out here so I have an answer for Chuck upon his next
>frantic wave?

The '36 Handbook says it's called a tank circuit because it acts as a
reservoir of RF energy.  In "Understanding Radio" (1940) it's called a tank
because it contains "surges" of energy like water surges in a tank.

73,
Mike, KK6GM

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