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Old November 3rd 03, 07:23 PM
Reg Edwards
 
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Tom,

It should be obvious when somebody asks how to find VF by using an HF
antenna analiser he is interested, like every other radio amateur, in the HF
value of VF.

If you agree with the table in the other posting, which gives VF vesus
frequency, and you are aware VF decreases with frequency, then how come you
didn't realise you had taken the value of 0.665 out of its HF context.

All my figures are correct.
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Reg

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"Tom Bruhns" wrote "Reg Edwards"
The velocity factor of ALL solid polyethylene coax cable, regardless

of
impedance, is 0.665


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And this comes from someone who I could swear posted not long ago a
table that had velocity factors for solid polyethylene cable that were
significantly different from this magic number?

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Freq Ro jXo Angle VF
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50 Hz 967 -965 -44.95 0.034
1 kHz 220 -213 -44 0.151
10 kHz 80 -58 -36 0.41
100 kHz 56 -9.3 -9.5 0.59
1 MHz 52.4 -2.4 -2.7 0.63
10 MHz 50.7 -0.76 -0.86 0.65
100 MHz 50.2 -0.23 -0.27 0.66

Smith Chart calculations begin to be inaccurate around 2 MHz and
below. So
do SWR meters.