Yup, it's a tapped toroid. However, I don't see it on Ten Tec's price list,
which suggests that it may be discontinued.
Al, K2ZN
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Althoff <althoff@verizon.net>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2003 9:35 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Balanced Tuners revisited
> Can someone describe the TT inductors? Where are they used? The
> term"stepped" inductors intrigued me. Not sure what these beasts
> might be. Are
> we talking tapped torroids?
>
> Are they available as standalone replacement parts? Price?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom K2TA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Scanandoah" <k2zn@rochester.rr.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 7:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Balanced Tuners revisited
>
>
> > Last year, I built up such a beast with a single inductor, based
> upon a
> > Zack Lau project in the 1990 ARRL Handbook. Not a true balanced
> design,> but the current balun on the 50 ohm side helps smooth
> things out.
> >
> > It works OK, but nowhere near as well as my dual roller inductor
> > network.
> >
> > I'm sure performance could be improved by using a pair of the TT
> > inductors driven in tandem.
> >
> > Al, K2ZN
> >
> > Tom North wrote:
> > > Recently there was a bit of discussion on balanced tuners, a
> la AG6K,
> and
> > > the question came up about the use of Ten-Tec's small stepped
> inductors.Has
> > > anyone tried this? Any comments?
> > > 73,
> > > Tom N5OZQ
> > >
> > >
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