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Re: [TowerTalk] Best Balun

To: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Best Balun
From: Charlie Gallo <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
Reply-to: Charlie Gallo <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:35:24 -0500
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On 11/26/2014 Steve Hunt wrote:

<snip> Any length of
> wire a multiple of a half-wave long and earthed at one end will exhibit
> a *low* impedance at the other end!

Steve,
Change  that to any REASONABLE length, I'll agree, but what happens if
the  length is long enough that R becomes dominant?  I mean, say RG-8,
the reistance of the center conductor is about 1 Ohm/1000 ft.  What if
you had 50K feet of coax? ;)

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