Use for extra toroids?

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Lukekg5wjz
 

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Use for extra toroids?

Post by Lukekg5wjz »

So slightly off topic, but I received a few extra toroids with my kit. Are these suitable for a little 9:1 for an efrw to go with the radio? Or an efhw? Any other suggestions for something I could do with them?
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Re: Use for extra toroids?

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You can make EFHW out of #43 material. If you have spare FT37-43 you would need 28:4turns, I suggest to make autotransformer ie wind 28 turns and make tap on the 4th turn. Have a look at YouTube K6ARK channel he makes quite interesting version.

If you have T37-2 then you could try to make Long Wire antenna with 9:1, however I am not up to speed with this type of end fed.

Good luck

73 Marek
KO4TCY
 

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Re: Use for extra toroids?

Post by KO4TCY »

How did you calculate the required turns for the FT37-43 cores?
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Re: Use for extra toroids?

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I've tested very recently the the use of various efhw transformer core sizes (including ft37).
You might want to watch this:
https://youtu.be/nNzTf1F12BE

And the video before explained the theory of the efhw and how to wind the transformer. Also worth watching if you're not familiar with this antenna:
https://youtu.be/2-4J8ECkoe4

73 Manuel DL2MAN
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Re: Use for extra toroids?

Post by va3rr »

You can make an EFHW tuner with the powder core toroids, but you might want to stack 2 of them.

https://www.aa5tb.com/coupler2.html

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