So that's why the CFA works miracles for its inventors and merely acts like a short vertical for everyone else. We're not true enough believers in magick....
Dear Peter, "Could I ask what vector potential is?" - Thank you for asking! I spent many years asking the same question and the usual answer that I got was that it was something to do with fluid mech
The loading coil is not just a matching device, it is also a primary source of vector potential and it is the vector potential, rather than its offspring, the magnetic and electric fields, which is
I have just read some recent correspondence on this net concerning the pros and cons of placing the antenna loading coil in the shack or at the base of the vertical aerial wire. The loading coil is n
and should have added (?): If it is cooled down too far below zero the winding maybe superconducting and current might be so high that the receiver could be damaged? 73, LA8AK http://home.online.no/~
I note 'KEV wrote the following on 1st April! 73, Tom G3OLB Its a question of requirements. 1. These Decca coils were used only on TX and 10/15 db loss was acceptable by putting these coils in a meta
The above info is old hat for those in the know, it would appear some have led sheltered lives in the wireless world. We're not sheltered, just our coils. John Andrews
1. These Decca coils were used only on TX and 10/15 db loss was acceptable by putting these coils in a metal cage for environmental reasons. 10 to 15dB coil loss means 90% to 97% of all power lost (=
of CAN, reflector the also The loading coil complex used by the Decca stations were located in a small concrete building. In the early days I understand that there were problems until the whole buil
Chris Most of your losses will normally be in your ground system - not the loading coil. Amateur LF vertical antenna systems of necessity have severely constrained (size/efficiency) ground systems. S
Andy, what you say requires intelligence to be done. Intelligence nowadays is a scarce resource, and it is more and more made optional. Who needs it ? When the red lamp glows, just push the yellow bu