[TowerTalk] tuners and power rating

Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com
Mon Nov 29 16:04:50 PST 2010


On 11/29/2010 06:08 PM, jimlux wrote:

> that program has just the flaw I was describing.  Since it doesn't ask
> whether the mismatch is lowZ or highZ, for a length of coax shorter than
> a half wavelength, you don't know whether you are running the coax at
> high current (more loss) or low current (less loss).

After some searching around the web, I found an online
transmission line calculator that does take these things
into account:

http://www.stroobandt.com/antennas/tl-calculator.html

It does indeed give interesting and different answers
than the coax calculator I used before...

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