With apologies to the reflector participants: On 11/22/2010 6:11 AM, Dave, W8OV wrote:
> Have salt water and a pump? Then you may have an antenna for VHF and > UHF. See > <http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/techspecs/26041/?nlid=3794> for > the story. A link there will take you to the original site with some > video and photos. I guess that you missed my original reply to this "news". Antenna design professionals have dubbed this "voodoo engineering" and have decried the original "research" as a grant looking for a project. Salt water has 10,000 times the resistivity of most metals, and therefore almost all the power will be dissipated in heating the water "rod". A bucket of sea water makes a good dummy load if there's a way to keep it cool. I guess that this urban legend will never die. Again, with apologies to the reflector participants. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane (P.E.) Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
