Re: [TenTec] swr

["Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>]

On 8/16/2010 11:16 PM, Richards wrote:
> On 8/16/2010 10:18 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
> > A 43' vertical is a serious mismatch on 160 and 80, its too short,
> > has a low radiation resistance and lots of reactance. That makes a
> > tuner run a high loaded Q and have lots of circulating current in
> > its circuits.
>
> Agreed. That kinda sums it up nicely.
>
>
> > I don't know what is in the $250 box, likely a loading coil with
> > some sort of switching like a series resonant circuit for each band
> > to select the right amount of loading coil. There wasn't a manual
> > available for it on line to learn more.
>
> I could not find any details, either. I am thinking I favor Mr.
> Salas's design - it is open, and apparently has the imprimatur of the
> QST Editorial Board. It looks, good, too.
At the moment, I have a disagreement with the QST technical editor. In
the April QST he wrote that you can't make a parallel transmission line
with impedance lower than 87 ohms. That shows he's using the wrong 
formula for characteristic impedance of a parallel wire line that ARRL 
has been using wrong for all recorded history. The simple formula he 
uses was replaced in other radio handbooks commercial and ham in 1943 
for low impedances. The simple formula is OK for impedances above 250 or 
300 ohms and about half the time it shows in reference works it noted to 
be good only with the spacing is much much larger than the wire 
diameter. I just published (again) a paper on that topic in the 2010 
Central States VHF Conference proceedings (can be seen on line at 
http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/CSVHF2010/lztl1.JPG and
http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/CSVHF2010/lztl2.JPG a repeat of
when I published in the VHFer on the same topic in 1966. I suppose I 
should submit it as an article in QST. I see in the latest QST that Ed 
Wetherhold is fighting with league publications on the sign of return 
loss numbers and is getting the same results as tilting with a wind 
mill. A Spanish wind mill at that. Perhaps HQ will read the CSVHF 
proceedings and correct their ways. Perhaps not.
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73, Jerry, K0CQ