Maxwell sort of stumbled on it in later years with those tiny beads that
seriously overheated with most amps. We "started" with the type that fit
over RG-213 and went from there to custom made, the big donuts, and sheet
products from pioneers such as Arnold.
Walt Maxwell was not only a real nice guy, he knew his stuff. Walt was a
senior antenna design engineer for RCA, including satellite antennas.
It is outrageous to say Walt Maxwell "sort of stumbled" on something so
simple, and that heating of beads relates to amplifiers. The heating is much
more an issue of abnormal common mode impedances, rather than power levels.
Walt's article, along with articles by Lewallen, accelerated use of common
mode chokes and current baluns. They got us away from those silly voltage
baluns people were using.
People who don't understand how things work are the people who spend a
lifetime "sort of stumbling" on things. Why, I remember when Walt patiently
taught me how conductor losses dominated transmission line loss, and why
that was important! :-)
73 Tom
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