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Old September 19th 06, 05:00 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Joel Kolstad Joel Kolstad is offline
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Default Recommended Method for PCB mounting of Toroidal Coils

Here's what Doug Hendricks recommends:
http://www.qrpkits.com/buildertip01.html


Hmm... that doesn't really seem that much easier than just using a glue gun in
the first place, is it?

Personally I'd also worry about detuning due to having the coil sitting right
on top of the ground plane like that, but I suppose that if he's manually
aligning everything anyway it doesn't really matter.