On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:04:39 -0800, Richard Clark wrote:

Given your hemming and hawing about parts cost, and willingness to
suffer what Tom describes as poor performance from cheaper components
- what's the problem?

No real big problem, just feeling out the group for any other ideas of
trap construction that my Google searches haven't revealed. That's all.

I've found more on coaxial trap design including VE6YP's Coaxial Trap
program. I have studied W8JI's material more closely and I see that he
found that the traps have lower loss above the design frequency than at
it. This would suggest that a 10m trap might be better implemented at a
design frequency of 27.5 MHz than 28.4 MHz.

I think this is what I'll shoot for.

- Nate

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