[TowerTalk] 160meter half sloper

[w8ji.tom]

Hi Eric,

You wrote:
> If the sloper is attached to the correct point on the tower, very
> little radiation takes place from the sloper wire itself.  So
> inductive loading to shorten this wire is not particularly
> detrimental to efficiency unless the inductor is quite lossy.
> Bottom line is that this is not a bad thing to consider.

I don't understand that statement Eric.

The loading inductor is in series with one terminal of the coax. How can it
not add loss?

Loss in a loading component has nothing to do with radiation, it only has
to do with current flow through that component, and Kirchoff's law sez
current is the same for either terminal of the coax, unless the feedline is
radiating.

73 Tom


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