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Bazz4CQJ · 23rd Jan 2018, 6:22 pm

Does the UK Intermediate Licence actually forbid the use of home-made coils; I would certainly hope not! Coil makers like Osmor, Denco, and others I can no longer recall, are long gone.

Don't be too put off by coil making. The first I made, under "supervision" by my mentor back in the '60's were no more than ~20 turns of 32 gauge wire on toilet-roll tubes, all held together with sticky tape and they worked wonderfully well in my two-valve TRF on the 30m SW band. The only "coils" I have bought in the last couple of decades have been miniature RFCs.

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23rd Jan 2018, 6:22 pm	#3
Bazz4CQJ Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Oxfordshire, UK. Posts: 4,934	Re: Looking for a cheap and simple shortwave regenerative kit Does the UK Intermediate Licence actually forbid the use of home-made coils; I would certainly hope not! Coil makers like Osmor, Denco, and others I can no longer recall, are long gone. Don't be too put off by coil making. The first I made, under "supervision" by my mentor back in the '60's were no more than ~20 turns of 32 gauge wire on toilet-roll tubes, all held together with sticky tape and they worked wonderfully well in my two-valve TRF on the 30m SW band. The only "coils" I have bought in the last couple of decades have been miniature RFCs. B __________________ Saturn V had 6 million pounds of fuel. It would take thirty thousand strong men to lift it an inch.