Roy Lewallen wrote in message ...
Reg Edwards wrote:
. . .
But the motion of the two coils, one inside the other, built into a working
transmitter would fascinate visitors to the shack. An attraction quite
capabable of overcoming the disadvantage of a ridiculous low Q at 30 MHz.
It's even better than watching one set of 500pF capacitor plates slowly
disappearing inside the other.
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Here in the U.S., where conspicuous excess is widely considered a virtue
(big guns, big trucks, big bellies, big antennas, big power. . .), you'd
surely have to include a fluorescent tube suspended in the middle. It's
especially important now that 866A's have become passe.

(I have fond memories from my childhood of a neighbor ham, ...BFB --
'Barrel Full of Beer', who ran a kW -- at least -- of AM into a lazy H
antenna which had a 4 foot fluorescent tube at each of the 4 wire ends.
It impressed me as being really cool -- but then I was 11 at the time.)

If it wasn't for the fluorescent tube I taped to the wire going out
the back window of my bedroom to a neighbor's tree yonder I never
would have found the hot spot tap on my 80M ARC-5 tank coil. 1953 age
16? Precocious I was not and I still ain't. I forget. But then I
discovered that tuning up by maxing the output of Mrs. Chandler's, the
next door neighbor the pore thing, bathroom lamp was a more better
route to go than the fluorescent tube when it got down to flooding the
neighborhood with RF then tuning around with the S-40B for a contact.

We're ALL nuts.


Roy Lewallen, W7EL

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