[Amps] Pi Net Switch

Phil Clements philc at texascellnet.com
Fri Oct 15 12:05:08 PDT 2010



 
> Some builders say a "shorting" band switch is better that an
"non-shorting" band
> switch.  My question is why?
[] It does not matter if you only have five bands; 80 through 10 meters. It
is when you add WARC and 160 meters that you need a shorting switch to
prevent the Tesla effect from burning up your switch. All unused coil taps
must be shorted together.

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC





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