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Old November 30th 07, 08:35 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Jim Kelley wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:

I measured a ~25 nS delay in a 75m bugcatcher coil.


What did you use to make that measurement? (I hope you don't say you
used a Bird Wattmeter.)


I've described it before. I used a dual-trace
100 MHz O-scope and estimated the phase angle
between the two traces at about 7% of a cycle.
That phase angle was certainly NOT ANYWHERE
NEAR the 4.5 degrees reported by W8JI.

W8JI measured a 4.5 degree phase shift in the
standing-wave current being used for the
measurement although virtually no phase
information exists in the standing-wave current
phase. W7EL made exactly the same mistake in
his measurements. No wonder the two agree.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com