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13th Feb 2018, 7:56 am | #41 |
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Re: Valve AM transmitter (very very low power!)
That is strange, when I follow the link at the bottom of post #40 I get logged out of the forum.
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13th Feb 2018, 8:12 am | #42 |
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No, you are not. Its an old thread therefore the header to the page is the one you would see if you just visited. If you open in a new tab you will then see your original logged in header and the new one.
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13th Feb 2018, 9:32 am | #43 |
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I dont get logged out if I follow this link https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=143862
But I do if I follow this one https://vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=139297 I dont understand. Mike edit, just realised the one that takes you to a "logged out" page is minus the www. Last edited by crackle; 13th Feb 2018 at 9:42 am. |
13th Feb 2018, 10:05 am | #44 |
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I don't get logged out by clicking on either of those links, Mike, though I have on occasion linked to pages which ask for my log-in details, even though I'm already logged in. Perhaps one of the mods. can explain the reason for this.
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13th Feb 2018, 10:12 am | #45 |
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The site with the www at the start has a different "session" to the one without the www. You're only logged into one of them. You haven't been logged out.
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13th Feb 2018, 11:09 am | #46 |
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I bow to Argus25's greater knowledge on this matter. I have done little theory on aerials, and the terminology in this particular case is, to me, somewhat ambiguous. Tony.
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13th Feb 2018, 12:05 pm | #48 |
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The different behaviour of two 'equivalent' forum links seen by different people could depend on whether they have ticked the 'keep me logged in' box.
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13th Feb 2018, 11:54 pm | #49 |
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The only wire I had on hand was insulated 28ga awg solid core hook-up wire. My home made coil form is about 60mm long and about 31mm in diameter. My 35-45 turn coil takes up about 55mm of the coil form. Naturally, the 65-75 turn coil is going to take up more room on my coil form. I can fabricate a longer form that will accommodate more turns. Can these two windings be slightly apart or do they have to close together, as shown in the picture? Please advise! |
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14th Feb 2018, 9:37 am | #51 |
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I'm not really an expert on coil winding, but i don't think it's to crucial at this sort of frequency. The overall length of my coil is around 85m. It's meant to be one coil centre tapped (it's not in the centre though! closer to 1/3rd ) so keeping the winding next to each other would be preferable. You may need to increase the number of turns on the larger coil since they are slightly further apart due to the insulation. You can find a formula / calculator for air wound coils on the googletron! (someone - back up the thread calculated the micro-henries for the coils - so you may want to aim at those).
To be honest i just guestimated it, based on previous experience of building crystal set's. The best way to be sure is to measure the frequency using a scope or DVM (i got one from China, cost #9.50 and does frequency up to 20mhz along with V/A, AC/DC and ohms) Just experiment, that's the fun! You could for example put the smaller winding on top of the bigger winding, as long as you keep the direction the same (ie the correct phase for the feedback to make it oscillate) Sorry i can't be more helpful. coop |
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One thing that might be worth noting;
The impedance of space or a vacuum , said to be 377 ohms and cited in the equations in post # 5 on the other thread, is the wave impedance in the far field from an antenna and is the ratio of the electric field E in volts per meter, to the magnetic field H in amps per meter. However, in the near field to a transmitting antenna (and all pantry transmitters and their listening radios work in the near field because of the transmitted wavelength, say 300m is much longer than the geometry of a house) the impedance is not necessarily 377 Ohms. For a whip antenna, the near field is largely electric in nature near the antenna with a small magnetic field component, so the E to H ratio or wave impedance there is high, but for a magnetic or loop antenna the magnetic field is dominant and the electric field low and the wave impedance lower. Most likely it would be the case then, that the loop antenna would be better for pantry transmitters if the receiving radios had ferrite rods, such as transistor radios, but for valve radios with a wire antenna, then a wire transmitting antenna would be better. That would be an interesting experiment. In the far field where the E to H ratio has settled on 377 ohms, it would likely make little difference and probably one could not tell whether the transmitted signal originated from a dipole antenna or a magnetic loop. |
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16th Feb 2018, 12:10 pm | #54 | |
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19th Feb 2018, 1:29 am | #55 |
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There is an interesting web page at http://www.electronbunker.ca/eb/antennamatch.html that shows in relatively simply terms how a short antenna for a pantry tx can be built and the basic theory behind it
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19th Feb 2018, 2:36 am | #56 |
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I still have a little perfecting to do. The audio quality is a little distorted, but it could be caused by the amount of line output that my CD puts out As said, a little experimenting will take place. |
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