Steve London' <n...@arrl.net>
Cc: 'Topband' <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: [TowerTalk] What's heating up ?
Hi all,
There are some good, fixed EU caps that were used in coast to ship radio
transmitters.
One of the outstanding onses were manufactured by "Rosenthal&quo
opband@contesting.com>
Ämne: Re: Topband: [TowerTalk] What's heating up ?
Once you know the problem is the cap, then you need to get really serious
about the cap. Caps in RF tuning networks are stressed applications.
Decide if you ever want to use it for anything except short and separated
c
For a while I was cooking vacuum variables in my 160 meter Omega match
network as well as SO-239's es "N" female connectors...
I couldn't figure out what the problem was?.
So I checked the line from the shack to the network... It was a 1/4
quarter wavelength
Once you know the problem is the cap, then you need to get really serious
about the cap. Caps in RF tuning networks are stressed applications.
Decide if you ever want to use it for anything except short and separated
cycles, like calling DX. If you get into contests, or ragchew for hours
with
