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Re: [Antennaware] Dual fed K9AY

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Subject: Re: [Antennaware] Dual fed K9AY
From: "K9AY" <k9ay@k9ay.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:42:47 -0500
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Both feed and termination will see the same ground loss, so Rterm is 500 
ohms minus the total ground loss, not half of it.
...K9AY


>
> To expand ... Although the ground connection is sensitive in the models,
> there is no such abiguity when using a mirror image of the loop to create 
> a
> free-space model. For this structure, the terminating resistance is 
> approx.
> 1000 ohms, which is 2x (Rterm +  Rgnd) where Rterm is 390 ohms and Rgnd is
> 100 ohms. It also says that Rterm is actually 500 ohms minus half the 
> ground
> loss. Feed impedance is affected similarly. I considered this the best
> verification of my "Mininec Ground + Loss" model.
>
> 73, Gary
> K9AY
>

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