Why the nitrogen?
Last time I had tires replaced the guy wanted me to have the tires filled with
Nitrogen. Said I’d get better gas mileage and would prevent ingrown toenails.
Mike Bryce WB8VGE
prosolar@sssnet.com
> On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Clayton Brantley via TenTec
> <tentec@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> What antenna is BEST???? Very good question. I worked for a few years with
> Al Henderson ex K6AJ now a SK.He made antennas for the navy and a few other
> users. Most were verticals that would tune to 1/4 wave length inside
> some special piping that was filled with nitrogen. These things would run
> north of $10k! Worked like a champ too.He had pictures of his antennas
> mounted on aircraft carriers.
> Now to the point of this discussion, Al told me the impedance of free space
> is 377 ohms and that is why the quad antennais such a good antenna. He
> maintained that an antenna could be simply thought of as a transformer to
> bring the outputof the transmitter from 50 ohms to 377 ohms. The biggest
> part of the antenna that is near the "magic 377 ohms" worksthe best.
> I know this might be a bit off the original topic, but thought I'd toss Al's
> ideas out and see what others think.
> 73 Clayton N4EV
>
>
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