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What becomes all the energy sent by my TX on 160m ? What become de standing
waves and reactive load ? Is it possible than all 100W are lost in the coax or the feeder without be emitted ? As I understand it, this is a very common problem if you try to feed a doublet antenna which is quite a lot shorter than 1/2 wavelength. The antenna presents a highly capacitive load to your tuner. If your tuner does manage to match it, you'll end up with extremely high SWR on the feedline, and very high currents flowing in the tuner's inductive component(s). Most of your transmitter's power is being dissipated as heat, due to the resistive losses in the feedline and in the tuner inductor(s). Trying to drive a too-short doublet has been the cause of more than one thoroughly-destroyed antenna tuner - the heat dissipation can crack toroid cores, melt the plastic forms in roller inductors, etc. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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