RE: [amsat-bb] Helix help.

["Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gunther,

The one I built, on advice from Howard G6LVB (Thanks, Howard!), is to space 
the turns 32mm apart (center to center), with a diameter such that each loop 
takes 146mm of wire.  Seems to work well.

Greg  KO6TH



>From: "Gunther Meisse" <gmouse@neo.rr.com>
>To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Helix help.
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:18:17 -0400
>
>I am in a bit of a bind. I promised to build an S band helix by noon on
>Thursday and suddenly realized that when I rebuilt my computer with XP I
>lost a good number of specialty programs including a nice module that 
spits
>out all the spacing and dimensions for the building of a helix. Does 
this
>program ring a bell with anyone?
>Regards,
>Gunther Meisse
>W8GSM
>AMSAT LM:594
>
>
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