After
winding T1 for my 40M QCX, I decided to have a little fun before mounting it,
and perhaps get it right before mouinting it.? I installed some header pins
at unused location C8 (in the 40 meter case) and, referring to photo 7 on page
53 of the manual,? I connected secondary 3 to the header pins via plug-on
wires.? Then I connected my return loss bridge to the primary winding and
injected a frequency scan with my dds-based poor ham’s scalar network analyzer
into the return loss bridge with the 5-turn primary going to the unit under test
port.? This gives a highly sensitive indication of the resonance
frequency.? Note that I did not cut apart any of the windings on T1 at this
point. To make a long story short, the specifed winding count was within the
range of the tuning cap, but I removed one turn from secondary 3 to get the
desired resonance point at close to the midway adjustment of the tuning
cap.? Photos attached.