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Author Topic: The purpose of a goniometer or variometer in transmitting  (Read 1457 times)
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« on: June 01, 2024, 04:17:03 AM »

I ended up with some variometers/goniometers, and don't find much on them except old receivers. Really old receivers.

Among them is what looks to my ignorant eye like a large Millen plug-in transmitting coil similar to BC-610 size and with the ceramic bar-plug setup of banana plugs, but it's maybe for 6 meters, or not enough turns for 10 Meters anyway.

Instead of  the usual two air-wound coils with space in the center for a lever-mounted coupling coil, this is a long ceramic form about 2.5" diameter with maybe 3 turns on each side.

Instead of a space for the output link, this form is solid and has a smaller ceramic form in the middle, inside the form, with several turns on it, which can be rotated - so it looks like a strange high powered push-pull variometer. There are no markings.

Would it be right to think that there's no reason this arrangement would be any different, from a results standpoint, than a regular moving link coupling coil? It's just wierd because of the VHF appearance of that when I am thinking about the old stuff. I know I should be posting pictures of it, just have not had time to take any. No markings at all on it.
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2024, 08:52:15 PM »

It's a variable inductor, not a coupling unit. Was used in the PA tank circuit of the ART-13.
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2024, 01:48:40 PM »

The GO-9 transmitter i have uses one in the oscillator instead of a cap for frequency tuning. The outer coil is tapped for different frequency ranges.
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2024, 09:20:48 PM »

Many hams have lost sight of the advantages of varying the L, rather than the C of a resonant circuit.

One of those advantages is when rotated, a vario can represent in- or out- of phase coils, therefore can subtract or add L over the median point, unlike a variable cap.

Variometers were an answer before roller inductors were widespread.

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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2024, 10:15:44 AM »

Looking at the different 'Eastern European' parts site, it seems the Russians used variometers more so than those on this side of the world!
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