Speaking of "the next size up", Rich, in testing with the "Jonathan board" actually hand-wound an inductor with something like #22 wire around a pencil.  I tried to do that and solder it on, but had no luck.  Even that wire is huge compared to the pads :-)

73,

Burns Fisher, WB1FJ
AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software


On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 9:26 AM Chris Thompson via pacsat-dev <pacsat-dev@amsat.org> wrote:
Jim,

I changed the inductor to 91nH and now it ranges from 137MHz to 151MHz.  Seems good.  I agree from your other email that the exact value will be dependent on the layout of the final board and stray inductance etc.

BTW, I didn't have the 91nH in the right size (only 82 and 100).  So I had to squish in the next size up.  But that seems to work.

73
Chris

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