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From: "James Moritz" <j.r.moritz@herts.ac.uk>
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:33:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: LF: Re. Beacon Power control.
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From:           	"LAWRENCE MAYHEAD" <LAURIE@g3aqc.freeserve.co.uk>
To:             	"rsgb lf group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Subject:        	LF: Re. Beacon Power control. 
Date sent:      	Wed, 3 May 2000 16:37:07 +0100
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> Hi All,
> Perhaps this is just too naive-but would it not be possible to put a
> resistor in series to swamp the Ant.system resistance so that changes in
> it have little or at least less effect on the current! This would of
> course require more power  to get the required current but for such a low
> power beacon this should not be too difficult. 73s Laurie.
> 
Plus it would buffer the TX against changes in load - or, looked at 
another way, it would reduce the Q of the antenna so tuning would 
be less critical. Sounds like a great idea.

Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU