Tom,
That's what the analyzer is telling me, 2.3 ohms.
My final "adjustment" is going to be taking the 1:1 balun out and feeding
the antenna direct with the RG-8x. I will rerun the test and see if this
changes any of the numbers.
73 de Bob - K0RC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: "Robert Chudek" <k0rc@pclink.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Foam cables and velocity factor
>> changed too. For example, the impedance and resistance dropped from 43 to
>> about 2.3 ohms. Thinking about this for a moment, these numbers make
>> sense.
>> If I am feeding a 2.3 ohm antenna with 50 ohm coax, I should have a
>> pretty
>> high vswr.
>
>
> 2.3 ohms?
>
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