[TenTec] Tuning Amp on 17 meters (Antenna impedance)

Richards jrichards at k8jhr.com
Sat Apr 20 15:43:17 EDT 2013


Great comments, Clayton...  They seem like corollaries to the old:

	If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance,
		baffle them with bull...

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On 4/19/2013 6:26 PM, Clayton Brantley wrote:
> All this talk about the theory is well and good, but in actual practice, what ever works does!
> Had an engineer at Collins Radio tell us (in the 60's) that "... the SWR will circulate until
> it is dissipated."  He just didn't say where.  Could be in the tank circuit or the antenna.
>
> Had another engineer that had a favorite saying "If the facts do not conform to theory, they
> must be changed."
>
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> Hope to interject a little levity into the hard core discussion of the theory.
>
> 73 Clayton N4EV
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