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Old 26th Feb 2021, 12:59 pm   #34
regenfreak
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Default Re: Radiation resistance and gain of ferrite antenna

You cannot measure high Q using off-the-shell aluminium tuning capacitor. Thats what i found with the tuning capacitor of my broken Heathkit Q-meter. Ideally it should be silver or gold plated like the HP Q meter 4342.

Belrose IEEE paper:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdo...=rep1&type=pdf
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