It's a 1/2 inch copper pipe about 10 feet long, and I'm running it at 1610 kHz.
I need to tune it for better effectiveness, but I'm a bit unsure as to how to do that.
I built a loading coil, but I have no idea what its inductance is (I ordered an LCR meter, so hopefully I can find out), but I'm wondering if maybe I can get by with a fixed 120 uH RF inductor and 7-150 pF variable capacitor instead. I'm not planning on varying the frequency much, pretty much just within 1600-1700 kHz.
Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions on this are appreciated!
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