[TenTec] "A low vswr will kill you ! "

[Stuart Rohre]

If any have access at work or university to RF Design magazine, the current
issue has a piece on open wire line, and formulas as to its spacing where it
becomes a radiator.  They are speaking of using wide spaced lines as a
lossy, (radiating) line for broadcasting RF such as paging around a
building.  Very close spacing, no radiation theoretically, but when you get
very wide, it behaves less like a transmission line and more like a folded
dipole.
this magazine is one of the free trade magazines and quite useful.  Anyone
can get one, if you are a "consultant" and most of us are.  The editor used
to be Gary Breed, W9AY, who has written for ham magazines on the sleeve fed
dipole, and designed a kit QRP rig.  He was good at having a ham related
paper in once every few months.  The current editor seems to have fewer, but
it is useful to understand the wireless business.
73,
Stuart K5KVH



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