[TowerTalk] Problems on a 2el vertical Array

[Mark Beckwith]

Jim Lux said:

"equal element currents ... Christman ... phasing scheme ... oddball mutual
impedances ... calculating ... necessary lengths ... analytically ...
solving simultaneous equations ... hyperbolic functions ... extremely
tedious ... optimizer ... by iteration ... calculate ... currents and
voltages ... equal ... technique ... mutual Zs..."

I secretly admire people who talk like this.  My fantasy is to find a tall
BLT who talks like this but it's a moot point since I'm out of circulation
and don't get out much any more, except to N5OT.  My wife could identify
with the Barbie they took off the shelf for saying "Math is hard."

I felt vindicated when Jim said:

>Considering that the broadcast industry
>uses the tuner approach, it's  probably
>a winner.

Yay!  Here's a photo of a some tuners, 1 per band:

http://home.swbell.net/swca/radio/Tuners.JPG

Finally:

>You think that will drive you to
>drink, you should see the scheme I'm
>working on.. individual receivers
>and transmitters at each element with a
>wireless LAN for interconnect.  No more
>coax for me, thank you! My feedline
>will be 110V extension cords.


If BPL goes through you could dispense with the wireless LAN and just use
the extension cords, right?

I bet some of you guys would be mortified to see what I can do with some
tower and guy wires!

See you in the contest.

Mark, N5OT