Trying to build an open air- AM antennae
any suggestions on finding the tuner for it
need 1) open-air dialectric tunable capacitor
(and does the coil of wire need to be solid core or can I use cheap
speaker wire to make the receiving coil)




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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:24:22 -0600, DoubleV wrote:

Trying to build an open air- AM antennae any suggestions on finding the
tuner for it need 1) open-air dialectric tunable capacitor (and does the
coil of wire need to be solid core or can I use cheap speaker wire to
make the receiving coil)

guess they're called variable capacitors and yes I found some on ebay
woot!!
Will Speaker wire work for an AM antenna?



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Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
with rod and staff we walk a rocky road
with god and laugh, bring all to shocking roses

DoubleV wrote:

guess they're called variable capacitors and yes I found some on ebay
woot!!
Will Speaker wire work for an AM antenna?

Of course!
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Bud