75 meter hamstick vs low dipole
And the Q of a hamstick is probably a lot closer to 50
than to 500. Someone else reported the hamstick as -20 dBd.
I would think it would be hard to design a coil with a Q of 50.
I tried to find a picture of a Hamstick to estimate the Q,
but no luck. Anyway, assuming the Q is 50, NEC returns
the following results:
Structure efficiency - 5%
Total radiated sky wave (with 100 W in) = 180 mW.
Input impedance - 112 ohms.
73,
Frank
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