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Re: [Amps] Henry RF generators

To: Jay Sturtevant <k2ztdx@gmail.com>, Amplifier Reflector <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Henry RF generators
From: Bill Steffey NY9H <ny9h@arrl.net>
Reply-to: ny9h@arrl.net
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:45:00 -0500
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i had a GREAT salesman working for me in the 80s.....

his name was Tom Barr....     his sister  was  Candy Barr....              sounds like the kind of stripper Tom would enjoy...


bill


On 12/15/2020 11:24 PM, Jay Sturtevant wrote:
Chris,

Sorry, but I had a physics class lab partner many years ago named Chris
Wilson. Chris was a genius, I was not!
He frequently referred yo my set-up of the experiments as a Heath Robinson!
He helped me the entire year!

Jay, K2ZT

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 8:07 PM Chris Wilson <chris@chriswilson.tv> wrote:


Hello Amps,

  Wednesday, December 16, 2020

  Oops, forgot the link to the 3000D 14 MHz deck , sorry. See below please.

http://www.chriswilson.tv/deck2.jpg


Best regards,
  Chris    2E0ILY       mailto:chris@chriswilson.tv




CW> Hello  Joe,

CW>  Wednesday, December 16, 2020

CW>  Yes, here in the UK we say Heath Robinson to describe something
CW> that is cheaply made, shoddy or sometimes obviously home made. It
CW> is not usually used as an offensive description, but more with
CW> affection for something amusingly eccentric.

CW> Here's another Henry deck, no tunable inductor, but two "Heath
CW> Robinson" variable caps ;) This is a 14 MHz deck, the previous a
CW> 27 MHz. There were seemingly several variants, some DID use a vac
CW> variable, but I have only seen photos of those. the 27 MHz deck is
CW> a 2000D, the 14 MHz one a 3000D.

CW> Jay, unless you went to school here in the UK, in Cheadle, Cheshire,
or in Manchester, no.


CW> Best regards,
CW>  Chris    2E0ILY       mailto:chris@chriswilson.tv



JSW>> Heath Robinson is the British Rube Goldberg (or vice versa).
JSW>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson>

JSW>> 73,

JSW>>     ... Joe, W4TV


JSW>> On 2020-12-15 6:44 PM, Mark - N5OT wrote:
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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