beginner wrote:

I made an inductor by winding 14 turns on T82-75 torroid.
Using 180 pF variable capacitor, in a crystal radio circuit I could not
pick up any signal but even with a 470 uH modded inductor I picked up a few
signals.

Is this material not suitable for this appication?

Thanks

I am not familiar with this core number, but if it is actually made of
Fair-Rite type 75 ferrite, it is not very good for making 1 MHz
inductors. It is low resistivity (acts as a loaded turn in parallel
with your inductance) and quite a bit of hysterisis loss. Are you
sure it is ferrite? Can you measure the contact resistance between
two points on the core with your ohm meter?

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John Popelish