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Old March 23rd 09, 03:50 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jim Lux Jim Lux is offline
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Default colinear representation in NEC

Owen Duffy wrote:
"Tom Donaly" wrote in
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Why would NEC reduce a TL two-port to a lumped load? Two-port
parameters can handle transmission line problems quite well without
the simplifying assumption that all components are of zero length.


Hi Tom,

I expect that NEC does model the propagation delay from end to end on a
transmission line. My comment was that NEC reduces a s/c TL stub to a
lumped load for the stub input end which is inserted in the vertical.


No it doesn't do prop delay. It does a steady state model. The TL is
just another two port that gets dumped into a giant matrix which is
solved as a system of linear equations. Think of TL as a special case of NT.