[600MRG] Litz wire, anyone??

[John Langridge]

>This all came about as I was thinking of the inefficient vertical with 3db
of it's RF going directly to ground...

um... you had 45 European stations report you last night, more than you
have ever had before in a single session since I started keeping records.
It took me 25 minutes to gather just your data for today's report.  I think
its working, 3 dB or otherwise...

Experimenting can be fun... Just don't break what you have in the process.

73,

jl

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Dave Riley <dave.riley3 at verizon.net> wrote:

> My imagination is running in overdrive right now.
> I have a hunk of Litz wire which contains 7 individual twists of 96 pieces
> each of .010" diameter copper insulated wire which in this case works out
> to .0314 circular mils times 672 strands, all in parallel...
> This comes out to be the equivalent of a single copper conductor of almost
> 7" diameter...
> Could this be??
>
> Litz wire operating at 472khz calls for individual strands of #43 copper
> insulated..
> This piece at 10 thousandths single strand is more suited for 10 khz. or
> so...
>
> Do I dare a try of 500' of this stuff in a transmit loop??
>
> When should I wake up??   The bandwidth is about 1.6 khz. and said to be
> 98% eff. at this length...
>
> Gonna have to sharpen the slip stick...
>
> This all came about as I was thinking of the inefficient vertical with 3db
> of it's RF going directly to ground...
>
> Lost, DaveR /17
>
>
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