>Thanks Tom for a very good hint!
>
>I made new coils (2 upper of the three coils) for the choke, I tried to
>make it similar as the original as much as possible.
>
>I don't have a grid dipper so I used the "bulb" method for checking the
>resonance points.
>
>I found 2 resonance points, 12.530MHz and 18.980MHz. The latter is not
>very far away from 17 meters band.
? sounds a bit too close for comfort. I would try removing 4 turns for
starters.
>I think it is well possible the
>spurious resonance was the reason for the failure.
>
? agreed.
cheers, Timo
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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