"K7JEB" wrote in message.

Well, suppose that it "could" be done.
Take a large paperclip and stretch it
out to its full 4-inch length and note
its 0.05-inch diameter. Too lazy to
dig out my Kraus or Jasik, I plug those
numbers into EZNEC (it complaining loudly
all the while about minimum segment
length) and come up with a radiation
resistance of 0.0001818 ohms when feeding
the stretched-out paperclip as a monopole
against a perfect ground on 1.9 MHz.

Now, I want to run my 1500-watt ham rig
into the paperclip and get efficient
radiation. To do this requires that I
pass 2872 amps of RF current into the
base of the 0.05-inch diameter paperclip.

I think I see a problem here.....

k7jeb


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