[Amps] Pi-Net tank bandswitch question

[Vic K2VCO]

Charlie Ocker wrote:

> To keep the tank Q reasonable on 10 and 15m, I'd like to switch some fixed C in
> series with the tuning cap to lower the tuning range.  I envision one section
> of the bandswitch for this.

Possibly a better way would be to put a small inductance between the plate and the pi-net. 
It won't have much effect on the lower bands but will form an L network to raise the 
impedance seen by the tube on the high bands. I haven't done this myself but have seen it 
in some 4-1000A amplifiers.
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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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