I'd agree with that.
It may also depend on how they define the terms. Every antenna has a figure
for "radiation" resistance. Could they be basing it on that? Or is it the
power lost in the loaded coils.....
Figures lie and liars figure!
73,
Jon
NA9D
on 1/23/03 4:45 PM, Pete Smith at n4zr@contesting.com wrote:
> I've seen some fairly interesting claims recently for the efficiency of
> yagis with coil loading. I'm not quite sure what efficiency means in this
> context -- is it simply the percentage of the driving power that is
> actually available to be coupled to what we used to call the ether? If so,
> is it just another way of expressing the amount of loss in loading
> coils? If an antenna manufacturer claims 90 percent efficiency, is that
> just another way of saying that 1/10 of the applied power is being
> dissipated in heat?
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