[Milsurplus] AN-104

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Jay wrote

> The metal sheath is there for "armor" only

Ya really think?  Those laboriously-studying jurrassic techies*
cudda put a wire whip outside like we see all over the ramp
@ civvy airports for the 125mhz +/- 5mhz am 2-ways.  Wudn't
work so terribly good for 125mhz +/- 25mhz.

Your construction description a HUGE help.  That stripped
coax center conducter IS capacity coupled to the metal
sheath.  It makes a "fat whip" with no concern about
getting a good sheath-bond to the feed line.  Ingeneous.

The 'armor factor' if true is a side benefit.

Then Jay sed

> Remember the fundamentals:antennas are special cases for transmission 
  lines.

Pse 'splain.  I don't remember enuf to know how that applies here.

  Marty

*anyone hear the argument that a legion of apes @ typewriters
 will eventually turn out all of Shakespeare?  Perhaps less
 than a legion now that we have Microsoft Word.