[TowerTalk] Foam cables and velocity factor

[Robert Chudek]

Tom,

That's what the analyzer is telling me, 2.3 ohms.

My final "adjustment" is going to be taking the 1:1 balun out and feeding 
the antenna direct with the RG-8x. I will rerun the test and see if this 
changes any of the numbers.

73 de Bob - K0RC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: "Robert Chudek" <k0rc at pclink.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Foam cables and velocity factor


>> changed too. For example, the impedance and resistance dropped from 43 to
>> about 2.3 ohms. Thinking about this for a moment, these numbers make 
>> sense.
>> If I am feeding a 2.3 ohm antenna with 50 ohm coax, I should have a 
>> pretty
>> high vswr.
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> 2.3 ohms?
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