Wait.
Who is Heath Robinson?
Famous kit maker?
Inquiring minds want to know.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 12/15/2020 5:34 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
15/12/2020 23:23
Many Henry RF generators on 27 or 14 MHz use a brass (?) slug within a copper
tube coil for inductance changing (as the turns counter advances the slug
within the coil the inductance reduces) and a rather Heath Robinson variable
capacitor using two brass plates, with a Teflon insulation sheet between them.
Now I realize they were not intended to be frequency agile, so my question is,
is there an advantage to changing the strange looking variable cap for a vacuum
variable? Is the consensus of opinion that slug tuning the inductor is fine and
can be left as is? Thanks.
An example Henry RF deck is at http://www.chriswilson.tv/deck.jpg
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