Loss in a feedline due to mismatch can easily be computed by several
means if the antenna feedpoint impedance and the feedline loss vs.
frequency and length are known. Those means include:
TLW, a simple Windoze program by N6BV, retired editor of the ARRL
Antenna Book, and included on the CDROM that comes with the Antenna Book.
ZPlots, an Excel spreadsheet by Dan, AC6LA.
TLA, a simple Windoze program by AC6LA. Both of Dan's programs are
freeware, google his call to find his website.
SimSmith, an excellent freeware Smith Chart program by AE6TY. It runs in
Java, so is cross platform.
Data to plug into these programs can be exported from EZNEC and other
antenna modeling programs. Data for real antennas can be measured using
good quality vector impedance analyzers (they must provide R + jX, or Z
and the phase angle of Z).
If used correctly, all of these programs will provide correct answers.
That can be a big IF -- it's the old GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) rule.
It IS, for example, good engineering practice to use a low loss line
that is mismatched to an antenna with a tuner in the shack IF the line
is short enough, and the line loss is low enough. Phil Salas, AD5X,
published a method for doing exactly this, using 50 ft or so of 1/2-in
hard line to feed a 43 ft vertical.
The technique of using high impedance open wire line to feed a dipole of
random length is another example, but I consider it no longer good
engineering practice because it is not practical to choke it to reject
receive noise. Off-center fed antennas have the same problem, no matter
how they are fed. A major advantage of coax-fed, resonant antennas is
that they CAN be choked.
73, Jim K9YC
On Wed,4/27/2016 8:36 AM, Ken K6MR wrote:
“P.S. I don't subscribe to the notion that quality coax runs of < 150 feet
make it "ok" to have the ATU in the shack while operating an antenna on
multiple bands....what technical evidence of that posit do you have to
share????”
Jim:
Google “transmission line bounce diagram”. This is a simple concept easily
proven by mathematics.
On a practical level, this is the concept behind the use of open wire feed
lines. It’s been done for decades. The type of feed line does not change the
theory.
Ken K6MR
From: Jim Rodenkirch<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 06:21
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Sherwood's receiver performance table updated
"It all depends" is/was the premise for my reply, Don.
If new and old hams don't understand the potential problems with long runs
of coax to/from an antenna they want to operate on multiple bands and an ATU
in the shack they will be surprised at how inefficient their system is.
P.S. I don't subscribe to the notion that quality coax runs of < 150 feet
make it "ok" to have the ATU in the shack while operating an antenna on
multiple bands....what technical evidence of that posit do you have to
share????
Note 1: I had a 43' vertical with top loading wires in a NORD-style config
with my external ATU at the base of the vertical and 120' of coax back to
the shack ---- never saw a VSWR delta of more than .2 between what was
"seen" at the input to the tuner and what was "seen" at the xmtr while
operating on 160 through 20 meters.
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