Most answers to this can be found here:
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/rfigen.html
Going there might help curtail the bandwidth on this subject.
There are so many variables on this topic that volumes of books have been
written.
Radiating feedline is not really feedline. It's antenna.
N4LQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Upton <kb1ckt@yahoo.com>
To: tentec@contesting.com
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 06:43:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [TenTec] Re: TWINCOM feedline?
> To add fuel to the fire... How does a radiating
> feedline cause TVI? I could see an issue to *your*
> tv, where perhaps the strong near fields cause
> overload; but is there a difference between TVI caused
> by overload and TVI caused by harmonic radiation? As
> in, you can't help overload (other than repointing the
> antenna or lowering power or such), but harmonic
> radiation can/could be fixed through a bandpass
> filter?
>
> Message: 15
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:50:34 -0400
> To: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
> From: Cliff <csegar@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] TWINCOM feed line ?????????????
> Cc: tentec@contesting.com
>
> <snip>
>
> Using the proper feed line (via baluns if necessary)
> to a resonant antenna will result in happy finals in
> the transmitter, higher signal strength on the
> receiver and less TVI/RFI to the neighbors.
>
> Long live 50 j0
>
> 73 de KD4GT
>
>
>
>
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