[TowerTalk] Best Balun

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > What if you had 50K feet of coax? ;)

You're feeding a dummy load - it won't matter.  With RG-8/RG-213
having ~ 1dB/100 ft at 30 MHz, the feedline alone has 500 dB(!)
loss.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-11-26 6:35 PM, Charlie Gallo wrote:
>
> 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? ;)
>