[ARC5] Suggestions Needed

AKLDGUY . neilb0627 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 01:22:38 EST 2016


WA5CAB wrote:
> I realize that the secondary turns given in the various manuals don't seem to agree
> with the given impedances but that's what the Navy and Signal Corps claimed them to
> be.  All of the transformers have the same primary (4000 turns of #40 AWG).

Are you sure you made allowance for the fact that the impedance ratio
is the SQUARE of the turns ratio? I've seen so many fellows make the
mistake of saying that a tap at half the winding is a half-Z tap. It's
not. It's a quarter-Z.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


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