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Old October 21st 10, 03:55 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Why do we short coil turns ?

On Oct 21, 8:32*am, Mike Coslo wrote:
After taking a good look at the loading coil, its apparent that there
isn't much choice. The bottom of the coil is attached to the lower mast,
and a four pronged plate that the tap wire is attached to at the same
junction. So unless no tap is used, some portion will be shorted/
bypassed or the like.


So which would be better (less lossy) for a 75m Texas Bugcatcher coil
used on 40m? Short out each turn individually or use one jumper to
short out all of the turns that need to be bypassed?
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com