[TowerTalk] Cleaning Aluminum Eelements

[Pete Smith]

At 08:02 PM 3/20/00 EST, K7GCO@aol.com wrote:
>
>In a message dated 20.03.00 13:32:48 Pacific Standard Time, w9ol@dataflo.net 
>writes: 
> >  > Cleaning the outside is easy. How do you clean the inside of those
>        small diameter elements?        
> Why would you need to do that? RF observes the skin effect and only
> travels on the outside of the conductor. I always thought skin effect
> meant it flowed on the SURFACE of a conductor.
>
> How does the RF know if it's on the outside surface and not on the inside
> surface????
>
>That's easy.  It spills over the ends into the tubing.  Would you believe 
>since the tubing is open on the end, it reflects a dead short 1/4 WL down 
>inside the tubing where it shorts it out.  Reflector and director are 
>slightly reactive but it also cancels out.  K7GCO

What utter nonsense.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

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