[TowerTalk] What *is* the optimum open wire line impedance

[Jim Brown]

On 1/1/2024 12:32 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> What would the best impedance be for open wire line, assuming you have
> some sort of tuner at the feeding end, so you don’t care from a drive
> standpoint.

While all of this is well and good and works fine for transmitting, this 
sort of antenna can't be effectively choked to kill RX noise. In today's 
world, that mean's we're probably deaf, unless we live ten miles from 
any neighbors and have worked to get rid of all of the dozens of noise 
sources in our own home.

What was a good idea 30 years ago, is not necessarily a good idea today.

73, Jim K9YC