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Old February 10th 08, 01:16 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Owen Duffy Owen Duffy is offline
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Default Zo of two wire open line

"John KD5YI" wrote in
news:Z2srj.1036$qw4.677@trnddc02:

I must be doing something wrong. 276log(2)=83 but looks like about 150
on your graph. No?


Sorry, that expression should be 276log(2D/d) for a consistent meaning of D
and d. (Some people use wire radius and some, diameter... so D here is
centre to centre distance, and d is diameter.)

Owen