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

[Robert Mcgraw]

Or it could be dissipated as heat in the coax as the RF makes may runs
and returns between the source and the load.


73
Bob, K4TAX


> Great comments, Clayton...  They seem like corollaries to the old:
>
> 	If you cannot dazzle them with brilliance,
> 		baffle them with bull...
>
> -------------------------  K8JHR  --------------
>
>
> 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."
>>
>>
>> Hope to interject a little levity into the hard core discussion of the
>> theory.
>>
>> 73 Clayton N4EV
>>
>>
>>
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