Hi Steve,

A rotary inductor will require a number of turns of the control knob to go
from one end to the other.  At one end the entire value of the coil is in
the circuit - at the other, almost no inductance is left.

It shouldn't be too hard, once you know the number of turns end to end, to
learn/remember where to stop tuning for a particular frequency.

Hope this helps.

Pat, K9JAUAt 04:15 PM 8/26/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyone using  an HF tuner with roller inductor?  Is it any  more difficult
>to return to prevvious settings compared to a tapped inductor,  where you
>just click around the different stops.
>
>Does a roller inductor  have a single 360 degree  sweep like the variable
>caps, where a full turn puts you  back at the same point you started, or  do
>more and more turns  keep changing the inductance?
>
>Ovviously, I've never used or even seen one of these things.  Hope to update
>the shack with a new tuner for  better 160 work this winter.
>
>73 Steve KW3A
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