[Lowfer] 8 kHz VLF loading coil idea

[Eric Smith]

OK!

NOW I feel that I must weigh in on this because...

...you keep mentioning the folks that build ridiculously huge loading 
coils....

...and you all know I did that very thing.  But I must defend myself here:

  1  I did not know what I was doing.  I thought I needed a huge loading 
coil because:
	a  My vertical element is so short (30') I needed much H
	b  All the coils I saw were big.  They only need 1 H, but I needed 
about 7.
	c  I read that it should be fatter than tall
  2  Put all that together and it equals a huge coil
  3  I did not know what I was doing.

But someone (I think it may have been you, Ed) suggested I try something 
smaller, just to get on the air.  So I did ... a 7 H coil wound from 
telephone frame wire and 8" dia PVC.

That worked great, and I had several signal reports.

Then I got the big one on the air.

But, I didn't understand its behavior.  I couldn't understand what was 
happening when trying to tune the system.

SO I yanked it, a long time ago.  I'm using the small coil.

So I hope you guys don't lump me in with the idiots that should know 
better.  I didn't know, and am only learning.

So please, I hope you can have a little tolerance :)  Hey, I said I didn't 
know any better :) :)

73
Eric, KD5UWL