Topband: EIRP Measurement

2012-02-21 Thread Tod - ID
In thinking about the measurement of EIRP for the new band it occurred to me that this might be the time for a few folks to think about how we could fabricate a commonly calibrated field strength meter. Such a device might well be used on both 160m and the 600 kHz band. By commonly calibrated

Re: Topband: T-200 vs. T-300

2011-12-15 Thread Tod - ID
A couple rules for toroidal inductors might be useful. To increase the reactance you increase the number of turns -- the inductance goes up approximately the square of the number of turns. To increase the power handling capability you add additional cores to make a stack of cores. This will

Re: Topband: Preferred Choke Baluns

2011-03-06 Thread Tod - ID
Charles: I make 160 meter RF Chokes [Choke Baluns] by running six turns of coax through 5 cores of Fair Rite type 31 [2.4 in diameter cores]. Five turns and six cores will also work. Tod, K0TO -Original Message- From: topband-boun...@contesting.com