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Old May 14th 08, 12:57 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Coils getting hot in antennatuner. Is this normal ?

Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
The velocity factor of 300 ohm ribbon twinlead is approximately 0.80,
but it varies from brand to brand and lot to lot.


I measured the VF of 300 ohm and 450 ohm window-line from
The Wireman. The 300 ohm stuff was very close to 0.8 while
the 450 ohm was closer to 0.9


Incidentally, the Z0 of the "300 ohm" window-line
was considerably lower than 300 ohms and the Z0 of
the "440 ohm" window-line was about 388 ohms.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com