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March 2nd 04, 04:55 AM

(RHF) wrote in message . com...

- Fixed Capacitor(s) for single station tuning.

Speaking of fixed caps...Some of my 160m buddies and buddetts are
building loops for receive purposes. Some have wondered about
caps....I've never tried it, but for fixed single freq use, I don't
see why a length of coax couldn't be used. IE: lets say you had a loop
that needed about 75 pf to tune. RG-8 is appx 30-31?? or so pf a foot.
About a 3 ft piece *should* work. Or seems to me anyway...I prefer
variables, but this coax cap method might could work for someone that
needs a quicky cap, and has none at hand. MK