RE: NEC-LIST:Loaded dipoles

At 12:37 PM -0500 2/25/02, John B. Wood wrote:
>>Wasn't Ed Altschuler's "Traveling Wave Linear Antenna" loaded with
>>series capacitors, and not with resistors?!
>>
>>-Chuck.
>
>No, he found that placing a 240 ohm resistor 1/4 wavelength from the
>end of the antenna was optimum in achieving the traveling wave
>performance he sought.

OK; I remember that now. Like terminating a rhombic, which is
another long wire, efficient, traveling wave antenna.

That's a good use for a resistive load -- to kill an undesired mode
in a basically efficient radiator. Not like using resistors to cover
up for a basically inefficient radiator.

-Chuck.

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