At 04:02 PM 9/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On 9/23/97 3:05 PM, rohre at rohre@arlut.utexas.edu wrote:
>
>>The basic definition of resonance is a condition of the inductive terms
>>canceling the capacitive terms. This applies to antennas, or tuned circuits
>>of lumped components as well.
>
>Sounds good to me.
>
>>A half wave dipole satisfies this definition at A single frequency.
>>A shortened dipole or any other short antenna cannot be Resonant unless it
>>has added inductive or capacitive elements attached to bring it into
>resonance.
>
>OK. Now, what if you took those elements and squeezed them back through
>the transmission line until you got to a box just before the transmitter.
>Voila! An antenna tuner! And it produces a resonant antenna system.
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
>Quote: "Not in a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
>
No wonder...all this time we have been calling these things 'tuners' and now we
know we should have been calling them 'Viola's'...I'll never have enough time
to stop laughing.
Chester Alderman
<color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param>W4BQF -- Tom
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