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HINTS KINKS COUNTING TURNS ON VERY SMALL TOROIDS MADE EASY.  I WAS FACED
WITH THIS TASK WHILE BUILDING A FIREFLY 30 METER SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO KIT
WWW. QRPKITS. COM/ FIREFLY. HTML.  I TRIED TO COUNT THE 56 TURNS ON A 3/8
INCH DIAMETER TOROID USING A MAGNIFYING BENCH LIGHT.  I COULDNT GET AN
ACCURATE COUNT.  I DECIDED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE COIL USING THE MACRO
MODE OF MY DIGITAL CAMERA.  I PRINTED IT OUT AND WAS ABLE TO EASILY AND
ACCURATELY COUNT THE NUMBER OF TURNS ON THE MUCH ENLARGED TOROID PICTURE
SEE FIGURE 1.  ALSO, I WAS ABLE TO KEEP TRACK OF MY PLACE WITH A PENCIL
MARK.  FIGURE 2 SHOWS 57 TURNS, I REMOVED THE EXTRA TURN.  SOLDERING RG 8X
TO A PL 259 I AM A WIRE ANTENNA EXPERIMENTER.  TUNING ANTENNAS THAT ARE IN
TREES CAN BE A CHALLENGE.  AT FIRST, I WAS USING THE FOUR HOLE SOLDER
METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING THE PL 259 CONNECTOR.  I WAS ALWAYS FIGHTING BROKEN
CABLE SLEEVE CONNECTIONS WHICH CAN EVEN GET YOU GOING ON A TRIMMING WILD
GOOSE CHASE.  THEN I REMEMBERED THE METHOD I USED AS A NOVICE.  LETS CALL
IT THE THREADED SLEEVE METHOD FOR RG 8X COAX  1 PUT COUPLING RING AND
ADAPTER UG 176 ON THE CABLE.  2 TIN ONE OF THE HOLES AND SURROUNDING
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G3SJH/350 W0GJ/343 K6EID/349 IK2BLA/342 SM5BMD/346 DL9BM/341 JA6LCJ/344
ON4AOI/340 AB9E/344 K3KO/335 VE3HO/348 G4GED/339 OE2DYL/339 G3VOF/342
W0GKE/354 K6ESL/334 IK2CHZ/338 SM5DQC/358 DL9ZAL/341 JA7ARD/353 ON4ATW/340
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