[Lowfer] LF Lop Antennas [AKA Loop Antennas]

John Andrews w1tag at w1tag.com
Mon Aug 25 20:38:19 EDT 2008


Jay and I have impedance bridges that can measure these kinds of caps to 
1 pF, and series resistances to 0.1 ohms. But you'd have to pry our 
cold, dead hands from the bridges... <g>

John A.


> As I recall the Boonton instruction book describes a 
> procedure which is probably better than nothing but any decent capacitor 
> is going to have Q which is much higher than that of the test coil.


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