ok so I'm thinking of trying to make a 6m magnetic loop 0 I've got plenty of copper pipe from my other loop to make it up
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I had it in my head that I'd need to find a different capacitor, b/c my air variable isn't the right value, and I like the "just do two plates" style of this onehttps://www.vhfloop.com/product/6m-f-magnetic-loop/ …
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but plugging the numbers in to a calculator suggests that actually I may be fine to use my existing one - this needs about 27 pF hrmpic.twitter.com/wizK507VGx
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the other "difficulty" is that I can't make the tuning easy by using my antenna analyzer, b/c it only goes up to 30 MHz (https://rigexpert.com/products/kits-analyzers/aa-30-zero/ …)
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One loop of this is 40 inches so I won’t even really have to bend it!pic.twitter.com/CUwiZoISIX
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And a little bitty coupling looppic.twitter.com/ohuRbGE8Ag
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