Hello Mal,
Thanks for your tips to prevent the loadingcoil from overheating, this will
be usefull for those who can get 10A or more into the antenna.
Just one remark :
Dont waste all those hundreds of watts heating up your coil, send it up the
antenna.
Cooling the coil will not get a mA more into the antenna. The power loss in
the coil remains unchanged, it will just warm the water (advantage : tea is
ready after each QRSS QSO) instead of the copper. So cooling is OK to
prevent destruction of the coil but will not give you any more ERP.
PS : maybe if you take into account that copper at 100°C has a higher
resistance than copper at 20°C you might gain a few micro-Watts.
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