Re: Topband: Palomar R-X Noise Bridge

["ZR" <zr@jeremy.mv.com>]

Absolutely and I had the pleasure of meeting him and hear him speak.

Unfortunately his very public arguments with Warren Bruene in QEX and 
elsewhere over the "Conjugate Match" and then showing up on various forums 
to publicly push his last book as part of his legacy (which contains his 
final words on the subject with no further discussion) while the battle was 
still in progress was a bit dissapointing. Several tried to engage him in a 
discussion but he didnt want to be challenged and the subject was pulled out 
of respect for all the good he has done over his long career.
Carl
KM1H


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From: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham@nc.rr.com>
To: "'Tom W8JI'" <w8ji@w8ji.com>; "'Top Band Contesting'" 
<topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Palomar R-X Noise Bridge


> Walt surely did "know his stuff" and he published some great material!!
>
> 73,
> Charlie, K4OTV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom 
> W8JI
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:31 PM
> To: Top Band Contesting
> Subject: Re: Topband: Palomar R-X Noise Bridge
>
> > 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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