Hello Chris,
I meant to type "having a play listening on *MF*", not LF, sorry.
> Hello LF'ers
> I am having a play listening on LF. I have found the variometer alone
> in my loading coil will resonate my strapped vertical feeder
> horizontal quad loop antenna, I do not need the main loading coil. I
> have a question re the impedance matching transformer though. It's
> based on a W1VD design, an excerpt from Jay's web site describing it
> is pasted here:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The gray box at the lower right houses the transformer which matches
> the antenna resistance to 50 ohms. The transformer has a tapped
> primary and secondary. The two rotary switches select 12 different tap
> combinations that provide a matching range from 12.5 - 35 ohms up to
> the 50 ohm transmission line impedance.
> The transformer is wound on a stack of three FT-240-77 cores. Each
> core is individually wrapped with Scotch 27 glass electrical tape. All
> three are then wrapped into a single three core assembly. #14 solid
> THHN is used for the primary (14 turn) and secondary (10 turn)
> windings. It's important to wind the primary and secondary so that the
> turns are interleaved and not wound so that they are on opposite sides
> of the core. The primary is tapped at 12 and 13 turns and the
> secondary at 7, 8 and 9 turns. Wiring between the switch terminals and
> the transformer and connectors is made with flexible #14 stranded
> THHN. Eye terminals are used throughout the transformer box, loading
> coil and variometer to allow for quick disassembly and repair,
> replacement or modifications to the system. All eye terminals are
> soldered rather than crimped and brass machine screws and nuts are
> used at all connection points.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Will I be OK still using the FT-240-77 cores at MF, both for RX and if
> I manage to get my full licence or a friend with one operates here for
> TX? Or do I need to build another with different cores? What type?
> Thanks.
>
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Best regards,
Chris mailto:[email protected]
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