Topband: Cone of Silence

[Bruce]

Anyone tried a string of resistors in series that equal the needed termination.
? No downlead on the termination end just a long resistor.

If you were going to transmit with something like that it would be called a
dummy load.

Grin or Smile,

Bruce




Dennis Sokol wrote:

> Herb: I asked Tom a similar question recently. That is, could you reduce
> vertical pickup by folding the vertical downlead back toward the feedpoint
> at a 45 degree angle. In other words, reversing the sloping termination. He
> said there might be some cancellation there but the effect would be to
> shorten the beverage. Would be interesting to try and to model.
> 73,
> Dennis W0JX
> Milan, Ohio
>
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