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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: SWR Tuning and PLL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.112159.18095@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec29.094932.29978@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:21:59 GMT
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- gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec25.084712.14174@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >
- : >It certainly will make the coupling of the transmitter to the mismatched
- : >line/antenna system efficient. If there is no radiation from the cable,
- : >then your statement would be correct. If the coax is radiating, due to the
- : >mismatch, then the antenna efficiency could be very poor.
- :
- : A mismatch won't make the feeder radiate, but an imbalance will. That's
- : a separate issue. A perfectly matched antenna can still have lots of
- : feeder radiation if antenna balance is not correct. That's where feeder
- : routing and baluns come into play. A mismatch will only cause reflected
- : waves *inside* a coax, feeder radiation requires RF currents on the
- : *outside* of the coax.
-
- Yeah - that's what I meant. I just wasn't using the right term. I meant
- antenna imbalance. Thanks for clearing it up.
-
- : >Although I never have done so myself, I knew a ham who ran better than a
- : >5:1 SWR using an open-wire feeder. The loss was so low that he put out a
- : >good signal. He did say that there was a fair amount of radiation from
- : >the feeder, however. I don't know if this was due to the feeder/antenna
- : >mismatch or to too short an antenna.
- :
- : Physical balance problems with the antenna. An open wire feeder is
- : inherently balanced and won't radiate unless something unbalances
- : it. That could be one end of the flattop near a conductive object,
- : asymetric feedpoint, etc. A perfect feedpoint impedance match won't
- : cure these types of problems.
-
- Thanks for the info.
-
- Bill
-