Jim Kelley wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:

What is the benefit
of using a lot of frequencies when you could use
the frequency of interest?

Your memory is growing short. Do you not remember challenging me to do
that very thing - claiming it was impossible? I said I would use
pulses, then you said it wouldn't work, bla bla bla. Circuitious, isn't
it.

No, I'm still saying the same thing. What is the benefit
of using a lot of frequencies when you could use the
frequency of interest?

If you are asserting
that attaching a load resistor to a loading coil dramatically
changes the characteristics, the onus of proof is upon
you.

It should be readily apparent to just about anyone that one does in fact
significantly alter the characteristics of a system by changing it from
one which has a reflection at the end to one which doesn't.

So I guess it is up to you to prove that the system is
somehow non-linear in one direction only. Good luck on
that one.

A non-terminated Rhombic has both forward and reflected
currents. A terminated Rhombic has only forward current.
Exactly how is the physics of the Rhombic changed by
adding a termination resistor?
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com