[TowerTalk] Low Inductance Grounded -Sleeve & bends

[Jim Lux]

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From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: "Carl007" <Carl007 at comcast.net>; "'Les Kalmus'"
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Low Inductance Grounded -Sleeve & bends


> > The conduit would look like a "lump" mutual inductance to
> potential
> > lighting traveling along the RF transmission lines.
>
> I don't understand. Mutual to what?
>
> Are you saying the fact it is steel changes something other
> than resistivity?

Yes, it's also ferromagnetic...
A piece of pipe essentially acts similar to a lossy ferrite.