[ARC5] A simple receiver improvement
Kenneth G. Gordon
kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue Jan 14 18:52:08 EST 2014
On 14 Jan 2014 at 18:26, Geoff wrote:
> Ken, the resistive part is low but the antenna is capacitive because
> it is so short and the reactance is thru the roof. When you use a long
> wire, dipole, etc the VSWR at the radio is gonna be very high in the
> opposite direction.
Ah, yes. My mistake. I was remembering (dangerous at my age) the resistive
part of the antenna, and not the impedance.
Thank you for the correction.
Ken W7EKB
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