>
>Impedance matching losses.
>
>The efficiency of the antenna is not being questioned.
>Only the loss of power when coupling to it.
> ... ...
>A ground mounted wire half wave vertical fed at its base. Its feed point
>impedance will be in the thousands of ohms
// True
>with some reactance.
// A half-wave antenna exhibits zero reactance at it's resonant
frequency.
>Coupling to the 50-ohm coax can be done easily enough but what is the amount
of
>power being lost.
>
// When matched with the venerable L-network, little power is lost
because operating Q is always minimal,
cheers, Rich
- R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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