J.
I'm QRV until July 16, 2006 for this year and expect the extension
before then until June 30th, 2007.
I'm listening now in the NA watering hole and tuning up before dark.
Maybe we can do this CW!
73 Scott
J. Allen wrote:
Steve, Scott, Jim, Dave, and All,
Thank you very much for your help. The antenna is tuned and now the
traces look like the ones on the dummyload.
It ended up with very little inductance, per suggestion from the group
and with the isolation transformer Scott suggested, but made with a
bifilar transformer wound on that 10-3/4 inch form because the TV
Horizontal transformer cause a phase shift for some reason.
Also, no matter what I did with Variometer connections, the inductance
was too high. I ended up using the taps at the bottom and about 1/2
of the single bottom winding. Without any variometer action, it hit
right on 137760!
Without the isolation transformer, everytime I came to resonance the
voltage waveform was awful, and I could not recognize resonance. With
the transformer, resonance is a beautiful set. When I get a digital
camera, I can send it to Steve or Scott.
I plan to solder all the connections another time. I am tired of
working out there in the mosquitoes.
Scott,
Do you have time tonight to try with VY1JA on about 100 Watts?
See you all next winter.
J
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