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[TowerTalk] Re: linear loading

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: linear loading
From: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (w8ji.tom)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:05:57 -0500
Exactly what is a "critically coupled" element? Where does one find that
definition, or what makes it "critically coupled"?

> Force 12 uses critically coupled and reactive antenna elements, in a
variation
> of an open sleeve coupling, along with forward stagger in the multiband
> versions, not true "linear loading"... Loading this design is going to be
a
> real research project... I would be inclined to leave em alone as the
antennas
> work as well as any other yagi for the same boom length... 

73 Tom


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