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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 94 04:30:29 PDT
From: Ham-Homebrew Mailing List and Newsgroup <ham-homebrew@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Ham-Homebrew Digest V94 #298
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Ham-Homebrew Digest Sun, 9 Oct 94 Volume 94 : Issue 298
Today's Topics:
Biasing tetrode tube - affects gain?
can square wave oscil (4046) be used for vfo/bfo's ?
Fractional turns on toroids?
INDUCTANCE MEASURING
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 03:09:29 GMT
From: dgf@netcom.com (David Feldman)
Subject: Biasing tetrode tube - affects gain?
I'm slowly progressing on a passive grid driven 4-1000 amp. I can either
bias it as a regular tetrode per eimac specs (some screen voltage and
some grid voltage as appropriate), or bias it as if it were going to
be run like a grounded grid triode (ground the screen, DC ground the
control grid, and AC ground the cathode, with a few volts of zener
bias in the cathode DC path as would be done for grounded grid).
Anyway, it seems like it would be much simpler to use the grounded-
grid style biasing (remember, the tube would still be grid driven, so
it is _not_ a regular grounded grid circuit).
Would these two approaches yield different gain in the amplifier, all
other things (AC circuit parameters) being equal? I want to take the
passive grid driven approach to (1) avoid the tuned input needed for
a grounded grid amp, and (2) reduce drive requirements to about 50W
for full output.
Thanks for any insights!
73 Dave WB0GAZ dgf@netcom.com
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 07:35:15 -0000
From: mike@io.org (Mike Stramba)
Subject: can square wave oscil (4046) be used for vfo/bfo's ?
Can a square wave oscillator, such as the oscillator in a 4046 pll be used
either as a bfo or vfo?
If not, is this because of the many harmonics generated by a square wave?
Specifically I'm trying to build a direct conversion receiver using the 4046
and a 1596 mixer.
Mike
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Mike Stramba Email: mike@io.org
Toronto,Canada Internex Online - Toronto, Canada (416) 363-3783
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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 94 21:06:03 EDT
From: Mike.Czuhajewski@hambbs.wb3ffv.ampr.org (Mike Czuhajewski)
Subject: Fractional turns on toroids?
The June 1994 issue of QST had an article, "Inexpensive Interference
Filters", where the author specified fractional turns on toroidal
cores. (Specifically, he gave tap points at fractional turns.) I was
always under the impression that the general rule of thumb was to count
one turn through the center of a toroid as a turn, and not to worry
about fractional turns. Indeed, several carefully controlled
experiments with relatively large cores (1" and up) over several
sessions, on a Boonton 260A Q meter, gave thoroughly inconclusive
results. Sometimes the addition of a fractional turn gave an increase
in inductance (slight), sometimes no difference, and sometimes--I swear
this is true--it even indicated a slight reduction. These tests were
done with fairly similar methodology, but over a period of time and
with a variety of cores. I did not document them thoroughly, but may
repeat them in the future. (And yes, I did try as hard as possible to
freeze all turns in place with Q dope, keep leads from the coils to the
fixturing as rigid and unmovable as possible, etc.) Has anyone
experimented, under closely controlled conditions, with fractional
turns on toroids and proven whether or not they are worth worrying
about? (As the author himself admits in the text, and as many
homebrewers have known and proven over the years, "the coils inductance
won't always be exact because of variations in core permeability and
winding technique.") 73 de WA8MCQ
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Date: 8 Oct 1994 09:10:07 -0400
From: jimn0oct@aol.com (JimN0OCT)
Subject: INDUCTANCE MEASURING
In article <pelt-0710941337220001@box185.ams.vt.edu>, pelt@vt.edu (Ranson
J. Pelt) writes:
that he needs something to measure small inductances.
How small?? Are we talking microhenries or nano henries?? If micro, the
Autek RF analyzer is real handy for those measurements, and they are done
at the frequency of interest. I have one, and am a satisfied customer, not
an agent of Autek.
73, jim n0oct
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