[TowerTalk] Transmission Line theory

[Jim Lux]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Baldock <pbaldock at verizon.net>
>Sent: Jul 1, 2008 12:49 PM
>To: richard at karlquist.com
>Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Transmission Line theory
>
>At 12:34 PM 7/1/2008, Rick Karlquist wrote:
>>If you have a line with 20:1 ratio of conductor spacing to
>
>Most calculators use an approximation like W/h<<1. However my 
>conductors are 2cm square, 3cm center to center, so stripline 
>calculators that I've seen don't work for this situation.
>

That's a fairly sophisticated problem, because you need to deal with the material properties (so you can get skin effect right, etc.)