[TowerTalk] Phasing transformer questions.

Tom Osborne w7why at frontier.com
Sun Aug 21 16:43:48 PDT 2011


Hi Clint.

If you get any answers, I'd sure like to see them.  I'm interested in the 
same thing.  Hope guys post to TT.  73
TomW7WHY



>I am phasing two verticals together for 30M and using the Trifilar wound
> toroidal transformer found in Joe Carr's "Practical Antenna Handbook" to 
> do
> so.  A friend, (more knowledgeable than I,) calculated 19 turns on a 
> T300-2
> core.  I recently found the core and now other questions have arisen.
>
> Does the winding have to be solid wire, or can I use stranded wire, or 
> does
> it matter?  And should the windings be flat wound, such as ribbon cable, 
> or
> twisted together? I have seen both methods.
>
> Any other information which I really need to know would also be 
> appreciated.
>
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>
> Clint - W5CPT
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