Understood. I have gotten better with the loops over the years. Someone mentioned 1000 strand phone cable.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:52 PM, J. Forster <j...@quik.com> wrote: > 220 pF is about 8' of coax. > > -John > > ============= > > > The coil with 50T and 5 foot diameter is 11.5mH. It would take about > > 220pf > > of self capacitance to make it resonate at 100KHz. > > > > Anyway, if the capacitance is too much, it's all in the way you splice > the > > ends together in the conduit box. If you want, you can make the loop a > > single > > turn with 50 parallel conductors. > > > > -Chuck Harris > > > > paul swed wrote: > >> I have used 25 pair telco cable. > >> The issue that can happen is the inter pair and strand capacitance can > >> exceed the resonance frequency of the loop. Or resonates below 60 KC. > >> Just a > >> heads up. > >> Using a 3 foot loop was not a problem. > >> Regards > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.