[SMCARA] Well as W. E. Coyote says...

[R. J. Ramirez]

Back to the old drawing board!

Sigh...  I couldn't get 160 or 80m to tune out...period.  I could get
resonance (1.1:1) on 160 at...2.129 Mhz.  Which would work wonders if I'm
like running a pirate station or something.  But for inband target of 1.9
Mhz..SUCK!  On 80, couldn't get a resonant point period.  Crap.

Well doing the autopsy, I found that I may be the culprit of the problem.  I
took off a few turns of the inductor and I should have kept them.  There was
a way to split the inductor and keep it electrically about the same as the
full size one to fit it into the constraints of the box but silly me
decided...nah...Should be plenty... WRONG!  So back to  Martin F. Jun's
house of stuffs for a new air coil inductor.  It does have promise but it
looks like I screwded it up.  Meh.

Much thanks and the tip of the ol hat to Mark KB3SEP for the use of his
analyzer.  You will probably get a loaner request soon there OM.

So until next installment.  Try not to clip your inductors until the
analyzer says its safe to clip them.

Enjoy your Sunday and the new week!

73,

Ren W3BNY