xpyttl wrote:

"Joerg" wrote in message
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Not just that. The transmitted code is also different.

He wants to listen, and at least at 10 MHz there's something to listen TO.
The 60Khz signal is pretty strange.

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No, its not. It was never intended to be listened to. It has a 1 BPS
data rate encoded time signal that has always been used to carry time
code.

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"xpyttl" wrote in message
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Huh? Yes, he is well into RF and construction techniques will be different.
But while there are advantages to air-coil cores, their use in recievers
went out with hollow state detectors.

I think that Coilcraft, API-Delavan, Pulse, etc. would be surprised to hear
them. Although I'd grant you that you don't typically find many air coils in
mass-market consumer electronics anymore, they're still used all over the
place in industrial and military design... where I work we buy tens of
thousands of the things every year for radio receivers!

Plenty of articles appearing in QEX and on-line also use air-core coils, since
it's a pretty fast and you can, of course, get whatever value you want with no
"minimum purchase" quantities.

---Joel Kolstad

xpyttl wrote:


Not just that. The transmitted code is also different.

He wants to listen, and at least at 10 MHz there's something to listen TO.
The 60Khz signal is pretty strange.


Tobin wrote "... easier to decode". So I guess he is after decoding and
not so much after listening.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Hello Joel,


I think that Coilcraft, API-Delavan, Pulse, etc. would be surprised to hear
them. Although I'd grant you that you don't typically find many air coils in
mass-market consumer electronics anymore, they're still used all over the
place in industrial and military design... where I work we buy tens of
thousands of the things every year for radio receivers!


To imitate an old Volkswagen ad: Air doesn't saturate. Well, I guess it
does at some point but that's way past where ferrites and iron powders
do. Today many inductors in receivers are designed around iron powder
cores but when it comes to heavy-duty stuff air cores are the ticket.
Same for really high-Q tuning circuits.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com