John Ferrell wrote:
You can learn to tolerate high SWR's, but I find it worthwhile to try
to keep things matched. The energy has to go somewhere, I prefer it
leave here through the antenna...
John Ferrell W8CCW

I assume that you realize there is a high SWR on a standing-
wave antenna, like a resonant 1/2WL dipole? :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

I was simply sharing my experiences from the past.
If you have followed a few of my earlier posts you are aware I am
simply a student who should have been studying this many years ago.

I welcome any corrections.
I never gave the swr on the radiator any thought. That is a good
point.
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:18:26 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote:

John Ferrell wrote:
You can learn to tolerate high SWR's, but I find it worthwhile to try
to keep things matched. The energy has to go somewhere, I prefer it
leave here through the antenna...
John Ferrell W8CCW

I assume that you realize there is a high SWR on a standing-
wave antenna, like a resonant 1/2WL dipole? :-)
John Ferrell W8CCW

John Ferrell wrote:
I never gave the swr on the radiator any thought. That is a good
point.

Hi John, it was supposed to be humorous. I find it amusing that
someone will say, "I hate high SWRs.", while running a
resonant dipole with an SWR of 20:1 (or whatever) on the
radiating elements.

Superposition and interference between the forward waves and
reflected waves on the radiating elements is what brings the
feedpoint impedance of a 1/2WL dipole down to 50 ohms (or
whatever). If it were not for standing waves on a 1/2WL dipole,
the feedpoint impedance would be in the neighborhood of 1200
ohms, similiar to an infinite dipole.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp