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Enough talk Its time for a link coupled tuner. A look into the junk box and a trip to home depot and I got what i need.. This will be remotely tuned by dc motors and relays in my shed www.tcamllc.com/tunerhalf inch copper secondary on a 7 inch form calculated l 30mhy mesured 31.8 large cap is split into 2 400 puff section and 2 140 puff sections small cap 100-3000 puff single section. all the components you see add up to 81 lbs Melt this one slab |
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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2007, 12:21:42 PM » |
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Nice! Your signal has improved noticably since you put up for new antenna. That is a funny looking guitar tuner though.  |
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2007, 12:31:09 PM » |
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I'm sure the bread slicer is a bigun, but I always get into the vacuum variable for the high voltage high curretn moments of radio. I know DERB will say that vac variable are gay, but what the heck!
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ab3al
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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2007, 12:34:11 PM » |
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well in the imortal words of peewee herman ha ha takes one to know one haha
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2007, 01:45:44 PM » |
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Ed/KB1HYS
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« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2007, 09:35:18 AM » |
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That has to be the BIGGEST air variable capacitor that I have ever seen...
I guess that's Mr. Cap to us....
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73 de Ed/KB1HYS
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2007, 10:36:39 AM » |
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Beautiful PRS! Caps and coil look cool too! Rick/K5IAR |
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2007, 12:35:25 PM » |
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Melt this one slab
I wonder how much juice it would take to belt one of those down?  The components definitely rate high on the cool scale. It is possible that Slab might be a little jealous. How big is your transmitter?  |
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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2007, 01:48:16 PM » |
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Melt this one slab
I wonder how much juice it would take to belt one of those down? The components definitely rate high on the cool scale. It is possible that Slab might be a little jealous. How big is your transmitter? Jealous?? NADA!  He better just hope the spacing on his capz is enuff to prevent arcage Rememba, the proof o the puddin is in the eatin!!  |
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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2007, 03:31:06 PM » |
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Hey Ed. Here is a roller inductor to match the caps.
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« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2007, 04:27:56 PM » |
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Hey Joe Do you have two of those inductors? I need a couple to build another tuner.
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ab3al
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« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2007, 07:00:29 PM » |
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well the spacing on the smaller cap is 1/4 inch the other is 5/8 inch.. the big one came from a 10 kw transmitter. the other i dont know. anyway you slice it. (pun intended) If I have made it this long with a 3kw mutha effing junk tuna I should be ok fine with this one.
thanks for the compliment on the guitar. I have that one and a mccartney edition along with about 8 bcrich us hand made custom shop models
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2007, 08:27:38 AM » |
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Hey Ed. Here is a roller inductor to match the caps.
Where do you find those monster parts??? Ok, yea I have Tuna Envy... |
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73 de Ed/KB1HYS
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ab3al
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2007, 08:43:41 AM » |
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ebay baby
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2007, 10:55:48 AM » |
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I guess fortunately or UN fortunately for HAM fests, eBay is a source, although you're going to pay a higher price. Where did the good deals go? And the treasures under the table?
Fred
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« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2007, 12:03:05 PM » |
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Phred,
I have yet to buy anything from Epay. You just gots to git up offa yo ass and walk a few hamfests. I have found all of my parts for everything that i have built at local hamfests. You just gots to go out and look. And besides the festers are also good for a little social activity as well. Epay is a good example of paying for convenience.
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« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2007, 04:00:15 PM » |
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Where do you get that little tiny guitar?
(Im Kiddng)
NICE TUNER!
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« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2007, 08:44:30 PM » |
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You boyz and your tiny little tuners.....
Ya gotta build a Mantenna Tuner!
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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2007, 08:27:49 AM » |
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Hi Steve. You mean like this?
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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2007, 08:51:40 AM » |
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Nice! Yours has BIG knobs too. |
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« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2007, 10:30:08 AM » |
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Hey Joe contact me if you ever find a matched pair of variable inductors.
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