> I could see really killing it if the turns were shorted
> but this amp uses
> taps on the toroid coil it does not short the turns.
I don't understand that.
Surely at least one end is tied to a tap point!
Let's assume the thing has 20 turns and the 20 MHz tap point
is at 4 turns. If the 4 turn tap was selected withouit
shorting the end, you would have a 1:5 voltage step up.
My bet is they may not have a progressively shorting switch
but they still short a large portion of the unused winding
when on higher bands.
Shorting one turn or ten, it is a bad ideal in a closed
core.
73 Tom
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