[TowerTalk] Lossy traps?

[Al Williams]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: "Dan Hearn" <n5ar at air-pipe.com>
Cc: "Tower Talk" <towertalk at contesting.com>; "Jerry K" <w5kp at hughes.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ comparable: both are essentially arrays of coupled low Q 
resonators.
>
 The F12 style beam
> couples some nonzero amount of power into the other elements, so there's
> some IR loss there.
>
>
Do the "other elements" actually absorb some of the power creating an 
"IR???" loss
of the source power?  Or do the "other elements" become energized and then 
radiate
in possibly a detrimental change of the pattern?
k7puc