Hello to all ! During the Christmas vacation I found some wire that might be suitable for a loading coil. The wire has a cross section of 4.3 square mm. I made a coil with a diameter of 38cm and a le
Measuring the coil Q revealed that having the coil elevated about 70cm above the floor (concrete) resulted in a Q of 300 and when putting the coil directly on the floor with the lowest turn about 5c
Hello Gary, Just a few additional thoughts on the antenna loading and loading coils. There is a way to measure the Q of a coil that involves resonating the coil with a "good" capacitor and coupling i
Hi All, Thanks to all for additional comments on the previous thread 'LF Loading Coils'. Continuing on the theme of loading coils, is there a simple method of calculating the 'Q' of an LF loading coi