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Old January 15th 11, 07:00 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Clark Richard Clark is offline
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Default Understanding Parallel to Series conversion

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:50:13 -0600, joe wrote:

joe wrote:


Saving a few cents on Lits wire will cost you almost half of the power
you could deliver to the tank.

This won't give you maximum power transfer.

Correction: You'll lose much more than half the power.


Hi Joe,

Care to go deeper? Would that "more than half the power" be 3.1dB?
6dB? 20dB?

Why "half the power" as a round number instead of a tenth?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC