If you use 5% resistors in your ladder...
I always use 5% tolerance resistors.
You also get error with extremely high resistor values due to leakage current of the varactor diode and you won't be able to measure the tuning voltage with a multimeter without a high error.
If you remember, I'm not using a varactor diode.
I have been playing, and so far, I am using a transistor as a varactor diode. I connected emitter and base together and grounded them, and I connected collector to the coupling series capacitor and the resistors.
So do I have to make the resistances low enough to provide current greater than the diode's leakage current to override it or am I off here?