[AMPS] Parallel coaxial feedline For 1/2 Characteristic Impedance

[Radio WC6W]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 05:03:57 -0000 "Billy Ward"
<billydeanward@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>Greetings Group,
>

<snip>

>
>This is it:
>
>The Idea was to use two 72-Ohm Belden cables in parallel to obtain
36-Ohms 
>to match a 32-Ohm 1/4 wave ground-plane antenna.  

<snip>

Hi Billy
  Yes, that is theoretically correct plus, as you proved, it works fine
in the real world too!

  It's too bad that there isn't an analogous way to connect two cables in
"series" to double the impedance! :-)

73,
  Marv  WC6W






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