Hi Jim,
You wrote:
>Well, you guys were trying to frieghtn me, weren't you?
>All this talk of lower efficiency and losses in long
>wire antenna runs. And here I am now, as of yesterday,
I suggest you try Dean Straw's "TL" program included with the ARRL
handbook the past couple of years. There is an older version at the ARRL
download site. This is a great tool for calculating feedline loss and
designing custom networks for tuning. And by now you've read LB's msg so
with a little integral calculus you can calculate the loss in your antenna
elements too. (big big :-) of course)
Regards,
Pete KS4XG
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