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Old September 29th 09, 12:15 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Peter Dettmann Peter Dettmann is offline
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Default coils : turns shorted = quality ?

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:28:33 -0700 (PDT), K7ITM wrote:

On Sep 26, 8:25*pm, brian whatcott wrote:
rtfm wrote:
On 2009-09-24, Tomylavitesse wrote:
HI,
OK?


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As well, it would be interesting to see the effect of stray
capacitance, as the reason for shorting unused turns is to reduce the
problem of stray capacitance and the inductance having unwanted
parasitic resonances in the system, That is why shorting unused
sections is normally advocated.

Peter Dettmann