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Re: [TowerTalk] Can Someone ID This Large Coil?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Can Someone ID This Large Coil?
From: kd4e <kd4e@verizon.net>
Reply-to: kd4e@verizon.net
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:51:29 -0600
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Appears to be three layers of approximately 150 turns of cloth
covered #12 enameled wire on the 4" form.

#12 would not be thick enough?

> Looks like a relatively high uH coil, probably way in excess of needed 
> inductance for a 160 m project..
> Looks like a capacitor across it, that I cannot read the value of, but 
> could be used as a resonating cap and along with a dip meter, or MFJ 
> analyzer could be used to determine the resonant freq, and back 
> calculate the coil inductance.  Kinda thin wire, too, for use as  a 
> power coil around 160.
> The bottom photo must have some sort of aliasing, kinda a moire pattern 
> that obscures the actual shape and number of turns...
> 
> 73, DX, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG aa6eg@hotmail.com


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