Re: Twiddlesticks

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:32:54 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
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I don't believe the AI's claim that water incursion into the tuning
tool will have very little effect on the tuning.  If you tested it
with de-ionized water, there will probably be very little detuning.
However, real world conditions aren't very clean.  There will be all
kinds of potential contaminants available to cause some detuning.

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The wood itself will contain soluble salts, so even if deionised water
is used for the test, it will soon be contaminated with ions as soon as
it enters the wood.

I do actually possess one of those legendary GDOs: the Boonton
Megacycle meter (and unlike most of my test equipment, it actually
works!!) So that will make for a fun hour or so's experimenting when
the chance arises. I'm wagering that any frequency variation will be
so tiny as to be dwarfed by the bandwith of the shoulder frequencies
in a typical VHF broadcast radio and prove of no practical concern
whatsoever.