[Elecraft] KAT100 question
Vic Rosenthal
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Wed Nov 27 00:15:01 2002
Vic Rosenthal wrote:
>
> I wanted to make a parallel monopole out of
> ladder line, with one conductor 66' and the other 128'.
>
> I was wondering how the KAT100 would deal with it -- how do I know, for example,
> that it would try to match the K2 to the shorter (1/4w) wire on 80 as a low
> impedance load and not try to match the almost 1/2 w wire as a high impedance
> load?
Just asking the question made my brain start working again! The KAT100 will see
a low resistive impedance, the result of paralleling a low and high impedance,
and very little power will flow into the 'wrong' wire.
Sorry to use up everyone's bandwidth for my private thoughts...
Vic K2VCO