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Subject: [TowerTalk] ladder line balance
From: 2@vc.net (2)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 07:12:38 -0700
>
>> One day an "old-timer" touched a small neon? bulb to one balanced line
>> output post of my MFJ948 tuner and then touched to the other output post.
>> There was a difference in brightness.  Is this a useful method to test for
>> balance.
>
>It is not a valid test.
>
//  A neon bulb test paralled my measurement of the voltage to gnd on 
each side of an not-balanced open wire transmission line using an o'scope 
and a HV x100 scope probe.    

>Radiation comes from charge acceleration, 

//  so my college physics courses were bogus.  
> ... ...
Cheers, Mr. Rauch.

-  R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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