[Elecraft] AADE LC meter for ham radio

[Alexandra Carter]

This is very true! The AADE unit measures at something like 50kHz 
ranging to 600 or so kHz, and the characteristics of the toroid 
material matters a lot getting up into the HF range. I didn't get my 
AADE to measure toroids at all, but rather to check other components 
and well, fool around with loop antennas, goofy homemade capacitor 
ideas, that kind of thing. And of course it's good to be able to check 
fixed components to make sure I've picked up the right one...... 73 de 
Alex NS6Y

On Jan 27, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Vic K2VCO wrote:
>
> The measured inductance of a toroid depends on the frequency at which 
> it's measured because of the characteristics of the toroid material.  
> I don't know the frequency used by the AADE unit, but if it's far from 
> the operating frequency of a particular toroid, the results might be 
> misleading.
>
> Elecraft has said that they do *not* recommend meauring toroid 
> inductance, just winding the specified number of turns.