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Re: [TowerTalk] Carolina Windom, etc.

Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Carolina Windom, etc.
From: Randy <randy@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:13:11 -0500
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Jim Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:13:55 -0500, Gary Schafer wrote:
>
>   
>> If it is 1.2:1 at the shack it is also 1.2:1 at the antenna. The impedance
>> may be transformed but the swr will not be.
>>     
>
> WRONG!  The loss in ANY transmission line will cause the SWR to be reduced 
> as you travel along the line AWAY from a mismatched load. 
Yep. The ARRL Handbook used to show a dummy load, made up of a roll of 
lossy, unterminated coax
immersed in a bucket of water. I suppose you *could* terminate it, with 
something, anything, or short it
out, it wouldn't matter with coax that lossy.

73,
Randy
KZ4RV
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