lets see.. 1.3db/100' * 156' = 2db at an input swr of 8 gives an
additional 2.7db of loss for a total of 4.7db. all this from one lookup
in the 1977 printing of the arrl antenna book figure 3-23. but
unfortunately it won't give you 3 decimal places of accuracy. how does
all this work change what we knew over 20 years ago, besides 3 decimal
points.
Jim Reid wrote:
>
> Aloha,
>
> Well, Dr. Steve Best, VE9SRB, of Cushcraft has tried again,
> and, in my view, erred again in his 16 page(!) article in the
> Winter, 1999 edition of CQ's Communications Quarterly. I
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