[TowerTalk] Perpetum Mobile

[Tom Rauch]

> Given that your transmitter doesn't come up to full power (on CW) for
> about 1-2 ms, the electrical current can travel about 200-400 km in
> that time. (Assuming .66 velocity factor in the feedline).

Right you are Bill.

It is a silly argument, unless you are running a broadband pulse or 
video system and a feedline that reaches into the next county at 
HF.
 

73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com 

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