Re: On the Fly tuning

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Check the archives there was a discussion about a week ago when i tried it
and yes it does work - poorly

Jason
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Subject: On the Fly tuning


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
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> I was testing my coil with my new "plate" caps. The base of the primary
only
> had two holes for tuning drilled in it because I didn't need to tune to
any
> less than 13-14 turns. With the new 15nf tank cap tuning is appearently at
> several less turns. Anyway to try to achieve tuning I layed a peice of
copper
> pipe across the primary. If I moved it in or out it would bypass different
> turns tapping it at different points. I was wondering if using something
like
> this on a plastic roller attached to a small DC motor could be used for on
> the fly tuning? Would this cause a lot of metal sparks?
> Just a thought, I really don't have a big problem with unplugging it to
tune
> each time.
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