On 11/26/2014 Steve Hunt wrote:
<snip> Any length of
> wire a multiple of a half-wave long and earthed at one end will exhibit
> a *low* impedance at the other end!
Steve,
Change that to any REASONABLE length, I'll agree, but what happens if
the length is long enough that R becomes dominant? I mean, say RG-8,
the reistance of the center conductor is about 1 Ohm/1000 ft. What if
you had 50K feet of coax? ;)
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