Dear Gary, LF group,
...But there is another justification for making a high-Q loading coil, and
that is power dissipation. If you are trying to run 1kW into a small
antenna, it isn't hard to end up with a few hundred watts dissipated in the
loading coil if this has mediocre Q. This would only reduce the radiated
signal by about 1dB or so compared to a perfect, zero-loss loading coil, but
it would certainly make the coil get warm! A big, high Q coil dissipates
less power in the first place, and has more surface area to dissipate the
heat, too.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary - G4WGT <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: LW Wave <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: LF: RE: Re: LF loading coils
> Hi Alan & Steve,
>
> You made almost identical comments.
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> So I will give that idea a "MISS"
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> Thanks to you both for your comments.
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> 73
>
> Gary - G4WGT.
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