[Lowfer] Big round coil hanging in the air

[Andy - KU4XR]

Quoting J B " Weazel " McCreath

> Hi Andy, Lowfers,

> Turning the coil over won't make any difference...think about how a bolt > and nut go together. You can remove the nut from the bolt, rotate it 180 > degrees and it will screw right back on!
> The entire coil would have to be re-wound to make a left-hand thread 
> from a right-hand, or vise versa.  At the spacing your two coils are at, > the effect is negligable.


> 73, J.B., VE3EAR

> LowFER Beacon "EAR"
> 188.830 kHz. QRSS30


Thanks for pointing that out J.B. I get brain bog sometimes. I even
had to take a piece of wire and wind it around a jug, then turn it 
upside down, only to find out that " Hey !! the wire IS still going 
in the same direction " ..... DUUUUHHHH .....hi - hi. 
But as I always am; If I think I have goofed up something, it will 
drive me nuts until I can read enough to convince me one way or 
the other. So I began googleing series inductors, read some about
series-opposing windings, which is what I have with the loading coil
with reverse windings. But then as I continued reading more material,
I read about Mutual Inductance between series inductors, and as you
pointed out; the spacing between my Variometer, and Center Loading 
coil, which is about 15 feet, will have negligible, if any effect 
at all in the antenna line. Plus I finally thought; " The Variometer 
has 2.35 Milli-Henries of Inductance, so my 88 Micro-Henry Center
Loading Coil don't have a whole lot to oppose with, hi - hi ....

73 to OM and HNY all the way ::::

Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
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