[TowerTalk] Fwd: Best Balun

[Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk]

With that length of RG-8 you can probably replace it with a dummy load. :)


Hans - N2JFS



-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Gallo <Charlie at TheGallos.com>
To: Steve Hunt <steve at karinya.net>
Cc: towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 6:35 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Best Balun



On 11/26/2014 Steve Hunt wrote:

<snip> Any length of
> wire a multiple of a half-wave long and earthed at one end will exhibit
> a *low* impedance at the other end!

Steve,
Change  that to any REASONABLE length, I'll agree, but what happens if
the  length is long enough that R becomes dominant?  I mean, say RG-8,
the reistance of the center conductor is about 1 Ohm/1000 ft.  What if
you had 50K feet of coax? ;)

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