Sorry, I left out a word -- paraphrasing, I believe Tom said "does not
*necessarily* reflect high losses."
73, Pete
At 06:57 AM 11/16/2005, Pete Smith wrote:
>Hi Pat - Lynn told me you called, I'd guess about this. My shunt feed is
>similarly flat across much of 160. Tom W8JI says that does not reflect high
>losses, but I'm reasonably sure that losses account for a lot of it. Anyway,
>as you said it does appear to work.
>
>I'm surprised that you were able to cover both 80 and 160 just with adjustment
>of the series capacitor. I would have thought that the tap point on the tower
>would be a considerably different impedance on 80 than on 160, and you
>wouldn't have been able to tune that out with the series capacitor.
>
>73, Pete
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