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Message date : Nov 10 2004, 12:44 PM
From : "OSBORN, Chris"
To : "LF Group (E-mail)"
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Subject : LF: Loading coil - suggestions



I've just spent some time constructing a new 136 kHz aerial loading
coil and the results are most disappointing.
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It is of basket weave construction on a 7 pointed dowelled wooden
former with a mean diameter of about 20 inches.
The wire is the same gauge as my old 'brewing bin' coil yet the Q is
lower and the aerial current correspondingly down.

The plastic R/S 4mm (tapping) terminals are well insulated on
perspex strips and I was expecting great things of it.

Can anyone suggest where I've gone wrong ?

My earlier E-mail to the group vanished - perhaps I should not have
included a .bmp attachment !

73

Chris G3XIZ

Hi Chris, I think your problem is the wooden dowels ! I made a loading coil with dowels and like you was very dissapointed with the results.Can you get hold of some tufnel or SRBP rods ,or use some form of plastic.

73 Laurie G3aqc.
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